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To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Benjamin Hoff

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.
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Negative Nurture Reality
Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.
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Loneliness People Spiritual
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn’t look very deeply into things to begin with.
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Clever Looks Pooh
Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.
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Drug relief Taken
Lots of people talk to animals… Not very many listen, though… That’s the problem.
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Dog Inspiring Love Problem
The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.
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Clubs Infinite Spiritual
The Universe knows what it’s doing. So don’t develop a big ego, and don’t be afraid.
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Bigs Ego Knows
Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.
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Able Minded Simple Tao
But isn’t the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn’t? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around – walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.
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Animal Needs Pooh Tao
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It’s just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
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Dull Information Way
The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard – one that thinks too much.
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Awkward Confused Thinking
It means that Tao doesn’t force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
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Done Mean Needs
Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.
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Experience Knowledge Language Speak
The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.
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Simplicity Voice Way
Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.
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Pooh Simple Simplicity Tao
Phonographic. It goes around and around. Sometimes it gets stuck. That’s why I remember things so well.
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Remember Sometimes Stuck

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

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To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

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