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You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.

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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

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Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

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Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

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Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

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If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

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If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

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Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

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Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

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I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

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You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

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The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

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So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

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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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We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

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If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

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Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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