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As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.

D.T. Suzuki

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
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 ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Ego Hardest Shells
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
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Agree Suffering Unless
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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Mysterious Mystery Should
Eternity is the Absolute present.
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Inspirational Life Time
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
To Zen, time and eternity are one.
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Eternity One Time
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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Heart Inspiring Moving
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
When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me.
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Identity Movement Opponents
That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Love Philosophy Winning
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
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Art Growing Technique
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
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

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