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Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.

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That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening
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Awakening Carry Delusion Forward Thing Yourself
Forgetting oneself is opening oneself
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Forget Oneself Opening Yourself
Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.
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Action Buddhist Day Dharma Discover Every Everyday Obstacle Worldly Life
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Discipline Finding Life Mind Peace Profit Seek Stop
Do not doubt that mountains walk simply because they may not appear to walk like humans.
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Appear Doubt Human May Mountain Walk
An ancient buddha said, “Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.” These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains.
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Ancient Buddha Mean Mountain Water Word
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
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Appear Body Complete Mind Peace Perfect Thing
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb
There are mountains hidden in mountains. There are mountains hidden in hiddenness. This is complete understanding.
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Complete Hiddenness Mountain Understanding
Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.
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Dusty Land never Place Sitting Travel Truth
Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
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Dew Discipline Every Fully Life Moment Short Student Time
Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.
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Gateway Liberation Sit Sitting Truth
I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”
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Ask Cooking Entire Hidden Nothing Practice Said Two Universe Word
Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Blossom Bound Emptiness Grass
In the stream, Rushing past To the dusty world, My fleeting form Casts no reflection.
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Cast Past People Reflection Rush Stream World
There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Doubt Meditation Possibility Simplicity Student Thousand Truth

Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.

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