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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
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When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.
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If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing…
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Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different,…
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The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
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Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
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The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no…
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When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'
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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer…
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When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But…
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If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one…
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They live ill who expect to live always.
— Publilius Syrus
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Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense.…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes…
— Rebecca Solnit
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
— Guy de Maupassant
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To live with God is to live always in the present, with him who is the eternal Now.
— John Robinson
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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
— Sophocles
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These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times…
— John Muir
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To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present…
— Pablo Picasso
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and…
— Cassandra Clare
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Live always in the best company when you read.
— Sydney Smith
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