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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
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
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Aware Deeply Impermanence World
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
Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.
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Eat Engage Fire Head Moderate Pass People Save Saving
Time is three eyes and eight elbows.
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Eight Elbow Eye Three
Practice and enlightenment are not two.
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Enlightenment Happen Practice Two
A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.
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Continue Life Master Mistake People
People like what is not true and they don’t like what is true.
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Buddha Like People Person True
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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Destroy Drop Individual Moon Realization Reflection Sky Water
When you walk in the mist, you get wet.
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Get Mist Walk Wet
To escape from the world means that one’s mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
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Concentrate Mean Mind Opinion World
Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.
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Away Nearer Need Since Step Truth
Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
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Abide Heart Return Speech Thing
A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.
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Fool Himself Men Other Wise
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
If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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Buddhist Go Yourself Zen Proverb

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