What is the most miraculous of all miracles?” “That I sit quietly by myself.”
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their welfare impresses one as being as important as one’s own.
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But you wake up in the morning and the world seems so beautiful you can hardly stand it.”
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A master, Wu Tsu, says, “Let me take an illustration from a fable. A cow passes by a window. Its head, horns, and the four legs all pass by. Why did not the tail pass by?”
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Entering Zen is like stepping through Alice’s looking glass. One finds oneself in a topsy-turvy wonderland where everything seems quite mad—charmingly mad for the most part, but mad all the same.
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The Lotus Sutra
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“If you had to choose, would you rather be loved or respected?”
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Like a camera, the mind had been poorly focused, but the adjustment has now been made.