If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.-Zen saying
I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.- Juan Ramon
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Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.-Zen saying
No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself--Tilopa
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them--Alan Watts
People in the world cannot identify their own mind. They believe that what they see, or hear, or feel, or know, is mind. They are blocked, and so cannot see the brilliant spirit of their original mind.--Huang po
Ride your horse along the edge of a sword; hide yourself in the middle of flames....Zen saying
Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation....Tibetan Saying.
"weeds only grow when we dislike them"
If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom fallin out of a bucket -- then you will naturally be happy and at peace.- Yaunwu
