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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

D.T. Suzuki

We lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.
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Disagreeable Regarding Threatening Track
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
Absolute faith is placed in a man’s own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.
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Absolute Faith Inner
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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Enlightenment Sides Work
Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one’s own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
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Creating Kind Trying
When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.
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Conceptualization Confined Mean
The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
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Archery Arrows Art
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.
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Moon Thinking Woe
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life.
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Heart Religious Struggle
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.
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Eye Thirds Two Sides

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