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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
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
We lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.
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Disagreeable Regarding Threatening Track
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
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.
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Believe Men Religious
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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Enlightenment Everyday Two
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is.
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Past Running 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
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
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
Absolute faith is placed in a man’s own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.
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Absolute Faith Inner
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
Zen has no business with ideas.
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Business Ideas People
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

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