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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

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Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running Time
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Merely Points Teach Way
The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
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Mean Moving Thinking
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one’s own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism.
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Eye Get Nature Real Retaining
The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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Buddhism Essence Historical
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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
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
A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment – the Zen sense oof the alone.
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Fishing Sea Simple
To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha’s experience.
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Buddhist Enough Teaching
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

The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

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