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Hinayana practice with Mahayana spirit—rigid formal practice with informal mind.
is your discrimination which makes it formal or informal.
Try not to win in the argument; just listen to it;
but it is also wrong to behave as if you had lost.
big mind is something to express, but it is not something to figure out.
Big mind is something you have, not something to seek
our human nature is without ego.
Because we cannot accept the truth of transiency, we suffer. So
the cause of suffering is our non-acceptance of this truth.
to find pleasure in suffering is the only way to accept the truth of transiency.
a view of life based on existence alone is heretical.
true existence comes from emptiness and goes back again into emptiness.
Because you are bound by some idea of going east or west, your activity is in dichotomy or duality.
As long as you are caught by duality you cannot attain absolute freedom,
Prajna Paramita Sutra
after we realize the emptiness of things, everything becomes real—not substantial.
When we realize that everything we see is a part of emptiness, we can have no attachment to any existence; we realize that everything is just a tentative form and color.
realization of the truth is salvation itself.
the realization of the truth is always near at hand.
To realize the truth is to live—
enlightenment is there, always.
“no mind” is Zen mind,
wisdom could be various philosophies and teachings, and various kinds of research and studies.
But we should not become attached to some particular wisdom,
Wisdom is not something to learn. Wisdom is something which will come ou...
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is necessary,
to believe in nothing.
No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
You strive for a perfect faith in order to save yourself. But it will take time to attain such a perfect faith. You will be involved in an idealistic practice. In constantly seeking to actualize your ideal, you will have no time for composure.
our mind is concentrated on ourselves we will have this kind of worry.
Since we don’t know, let’s appreciate the sound of the rain now.”
understand yourself as a temporal embodiment of the truth,
By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing in something which has no form or no color, which is ready to take form or color.
We have nowhere to escape. So
in activity there should
be calmness, and in calmness there shoul...
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There are just many names for one existence.
So in love there should be hate, or nonattachment. And in hate there should be love, or acceptance.
“To learn something is to know yourself;
We should find out the meaning of our effort before we attain something.
You lose yourself in the struggle for your goal;
Which is more important:
to make a million dollars, or to enjoy your life in your effort,
Without knowing the origin of things we cannot appreciate the result of our life’s effort.
Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.
if moment by moment your effort arises from its pure origin, all you do will be good,
and you will be satisfied with wha...
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Buddhism is not some particular teaching. Buddhism is just Truth, which includes various truths in it.
Zazen practice is the practice which includes
the various activ...
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