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“All that I possess and use Is like the fleeting vision of a dream. It fades into the realms of memory, And fading, will be seen no more.”
Śāntideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva

Shunryu Suzuki
“it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves. We should find the truth in this world, through our difficulties, through our suffering.”
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Chögyam Trungpa
“One of the problems of spiritual searching is that we tend to feel that we can help ourselves purely by reading a lot and practicing by ourselves, not associating ourselves with a particular lineage. Without a teacher to surrender to, without an object of devotion, we cannot free ourselves from spiritual materialism.”
Chögyam Trungpa, The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

Shunryu Suzuki
“But the purpose of studying Buddhism is to study ourselves and to forget ourselves. When we forget ourselves, we actually are the true activity of the big existence, or reality itself.”
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Shunryu Suzuki
“Before we were born we had no feeling; we were one with the universe. This is called “mind-only,” or “essence of mind,” or “big mind.” After we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feeling. You have difficulty because you have feeling. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created. When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life.”
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

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