"Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand……" — Seungsahn
"Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem."
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18 Quotes by Seungsahn
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In original nature There is no this and that. The Great Round Mirror Has no likes or dislikes.
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If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.
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Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is…
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Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be…
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The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.
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The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a…
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The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.
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A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?
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In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. .…
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If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon.…
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Don't want anything. Then you get everything.
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If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.
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More Death Quotes
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
— Hannah Arendt
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating…
— Giorgio Armani
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
— Matthew Arnold
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
— Isaac Asimov
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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