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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan Watts

The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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