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

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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
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 it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
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Borrowed Grows Plumage
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
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
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
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
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
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
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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Done Great Work Thinking
We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.
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Forgotten Ideas Realizing
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.
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Acceptance Doctrine Intellectual

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

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