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• To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
• Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that…
• Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken.…
• In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
• If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
• When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
• Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
• To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things…
• If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person,…
• If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
• Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of…
• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

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