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“Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence.”

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Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“Chaung Tzu was one of the most natural men the world has seen. He has not given any discipline, he has not given any doctrine, he has not given any catechism. He has simply explained one thing: that if you can be natural and ordinary, just like the birds and trees, you will blossom, you will have your wings open in the vast sky.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”

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Book:The Sufis

Source: The Sufis

“Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.”

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Author:Freya Stark

“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.”

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Author:Robert Bly

“When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.”

May Levels Awareness Discipline Ordinary Gains Extraordinary Seekers Entrances

Book:Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry