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“Be aware that the concept of meditation is to shift your focus to the awareness of the thinking process, rather than the content of the thoughts.”

Book:Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You

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“We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, change. That everything changes is the basic truth of each existence. When we realize the everlasting truth of “everything changes” and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.”

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Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“So I’ve held on to Catholicism or Zen, as practices, as fantasy futures, as possible identities. But when I actually dare to lower myself down into this emptiness—no, that sounds entirely too dualistic and willful and “courageous”—but when this seeing suddenly happens and thought relaxes, Zen drops completely away, and something much deeper is contacted, some entirely other way of being.”

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Book:Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life

Source: Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life

“However, for human beings, practice is much too tiresome. We want to show our appreciation like sightseers, without doing it ourselves. Like spectator sports, which are very popular, the Zen fad is really a spectator Zen or Zen sightseeing fad.”

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Book:Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo

Source: Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo

“A waitress wearing a transparent amber dress came up to the bar. She sauntered toward him and paused to stare into his face. She surprised him by leaning close and kissing his lips. She then backed away and slapped him moderately hard. Slater half-laughed. “What the hell was that for?” “To know the sound of one hand clapping.”

Humor Zen Philosophy Of Life

Book:Exploits of the Satyr

Source: Exploits of the Satyr

“A pine tree’s branches are pliable, so they will flex downward rather than snap under the weight of accumulating snow. This is Strength through Flexibility.”

Life Inspirational Philosophy Zen Matsu Matsu No Ki

Book:The Arrows of Zen

Source: The Arrows of Zen

“Adversity is an opportunity for Change”

Inspirational Zen Overwatch

Author:Zenyatta

“The truth of life is just to live.”

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Book:You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight

Source: You Have to Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight

“A person may appear a fool and yet not be one. They may only be guarding their wisdom carefully.”

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Author:Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki

“On clear nights, the moon casts a glow on everything uniformly. It doesn’t discriminate by shining on one pond and not on another.”

Life Inspirational Philosophy Zen Tsuki

Book:The Arrows of Zen

Source: The Arrows of Zen

“Not even once has life or the weather complained about a human being.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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