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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

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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
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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Ideas Learn Listen Unity Voice Within Yourself
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
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Become Born Buddhist Child Mother Spiritual Study
Those who practice know whether realization is attained or not, just as those who drink water know whether it is hot or cold
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Cold Drink Hot Practice Realization Water
What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.
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Good Mind Necessary People Thinking
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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Discover Inspirational Life Original Selves War
To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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Buddhism Buddhist Life Ourselves Space Study
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
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Advance Call Confirm Delusion Enlightenment Self Ten Thousand
Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
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Beginning End Enlightenment Practice Realization Since
The recognition of the coming and going of things is a first step in training and practice.
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Coem First Go Practice Recognition Step Training
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.
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Earth Enlight Religion Self Sell Study Thing
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
Coming, going, the waterbirds, don’t leave a trace, don’t follow a path.
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Come Go Leave Path Trace Waterbird
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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Cvain Dew Flash Lightning Lost Moment Momentary Morning
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

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