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Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

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For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.

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What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

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At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

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Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

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The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

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Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

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