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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

D.T. Suzuki

Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts
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All Bleeding Artist Great
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
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
Dhyana is retaining one’s tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.
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Anger Frustrated Mind
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
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
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.
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Ideas Reality Ruins
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
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
If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Ignorance Silence
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.
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Experience Facts Ordinary Thinking
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time

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