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We are often impressed by things we don’t fully understand

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When you find that you are becoming respected and honoured, that’s the time to leave’

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It is best not to be on the heights, but to be down below where you can have things and keep them.

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Many of the so‑called honours in fact are false

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Eastern doctrines reject the absolute reality of the world

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They were outwitted through their impulsive greed for the food.

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Illumined teachers communicate the cosmic purpose

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A life which has been shaped and polished so that it’s true nature begins to appear

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Note of Hand

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The aged dictator of Spain was dying

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There is another kind of long life

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The third stage of ingratitude is a couplet by the 13th century Persian poet Saadi of Shiraz

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Ikkyu was a famous Zen priest and poet , who was sometimes overwhelmed by sexual desire

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Dogen brought Soto Zen from China to Japan

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In the mind when there is no control, two or three obstinate thought-feelings can become locked in a struggle

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Here is a battle unsought; completely unselfish, for a warrior that is an open door to heaven

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Repeat OM slowly, meditating that it means the universal self

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The eye races over the well-known phrases, and much is missed

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The great Self takes on itself the illusion of the succession of bodies

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Share the beauty of your treasures and you will not regret them if they go

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Sense experiences during meditation

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To have inner voices is regarded as a symptom of dysfunction

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The ultimate independence of Self-realization

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The mind can be taken as the bucket of water

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When we are young we often have a keen sense of right and wrong

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Some scholars study texts in which they have no interest whatever in the real meaning

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Prepare oneself to throw away gain and loss, life and death

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Bird-man and Earth-man

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There is no response from the True Face within

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The Power of Formlessness