Gateless Gate
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逢佛殺佛

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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

~Bodhidharma
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If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

~Dogen
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The past has no power over the present moment.

~Eckhart Tolle
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

~Gautama Buddha
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

~George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
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6. Riding the Bull Home Mounting the bull, slowly I return homeward. The voice of my flute intones through the evening. Measuring with hand-beats the pulsating harmony, I direct the endless rhythm. Whoever hears this melody will join me. ~Kuòān Shīyuǎn…
This struggle is over; gain and loss are assimilated. I sing the song of the village woodsman, and play the tunes of the children. Astride the bull, I observe the clouds above. Onward I go, no matter who may wish to call me back.

~The Ten Bulls of Zen
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

~Heraclitus
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti
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7. The Bull Transcended Astride the bull, I reach home. I am serene. The bull too can rest. The dawn has come. In blissful repose, Within my thatched dwelling I have abandoned the whip and rope. ~Kuòān Shīyuǎn @GatelessGate
All is one law, not two. We only make the bull a temporary subject. It is as the relation of rabbit and trap, of fish and net. It is as gold and dross, or the moon emerging from a cloud. One path of clear light travels on throughout endless time.

~The Ten Bulls of Zen
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Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals:
not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me, you will see me instantly — you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath

~Kabir
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Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.

~Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

~Lao Tzu
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If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him

~Linji Yixuan
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.

~Mahavira
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8. Both Bull and Self Transcended Whip, rope, person, and bull — all merge in No-Thing. This heaven is so vast no message can stain it. How may a snowflake exist in a raging fire? Here are the footprints of the patriarchs. ~Kuòān Shīyuǎn @GatelessGate
Mediocrity is gone. Mind is clear of limitation. I seek no state of enlightenment. Neither do I remain where no enlightenment exists. Since I linger in neither condition, eyes cannot see me. If hundreds of birds strew my path with flowers, such praise would be meaningless.

~The Ten Bulls of Zen
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The journey itself is my home.

~Matsuo Bash
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My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

~Milarepa
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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

~Nagarjuna
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It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

~Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

~Omar Khayyam
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