If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.
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In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.
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Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.
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Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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In the mundane, nothing is sacred. In sacredness, nothing is mundane.
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Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.
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The true person is Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, Everywhere in the world.
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Realization doesn’t destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
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Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.
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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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