The foolish chase appearances
And forget the essence.
The wise follow the essence
And forget about everything else.
This brings the greatest Power of Goodness,
A goodness elusive and intangible
Yet projecting images and forms,
Thoughts and feelings.
From beginningless time,
This Goodness shines
Illuminating all of creation.
Existing yet not existing;
Dark and distant
It waxes and wanes,
Form as empty
Empty as form.
Without the Way,
Goodness would have no Power;
Without Goodness,
The Way would have no Form.
How do we know?
Through here-and-now
Empty-hearted this-ness.
“The surest test if a man be sane is if he accepts life whole, as it is.”
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“Man is the measure of all things: of the things that are, that they are, of the things that are not, that they are not.”
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“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
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“when the mind is open and free of its own thoughts, life unfolds effortlessly and the whole world is filled with light”
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“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
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“Only when we take emptiness as our virtue can our actions accord with the Tao.”
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“The true Tao exists and yet does not exist. It does not exist and it does not not exist… Outside of the Tao, there are no things. And outside of things, there is no Tao.”
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“The phenomenal appearance of empty space transcends pleasure into pure joy and happiness.”
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“The ignorant avoid experience but not thought; the wise avoid thought but not experience.”
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“kill the louse of habit-forming thoughts, self-originated and self-destructive”
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“If you do not realize that all things are merely of the mind, endless apparitions will never cease.”
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“Realize that not a single thing exists and respond unencumbered to each spec of dust without becoming its partner.”
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“To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way for courageous people.”
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“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few see clearly.”
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“O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall!”
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“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.”
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“some make much of what matters little and little of much… Many never lose their common sense, because they have none to lose… The wise person thinks over everything, but with a difference, most profoundly where there is some profound difficulty.”
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“Our debates were… to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth without… desire of victory… all expressions of positiveness in opinions or direct contradiction were prohibited.”
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
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“Whenever someone brags about their common sense, you can be sure they have very little, either common or uncommon.”
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“Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”
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“'Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.'”
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“There is nothing so shallow as sophistication; it judges everything from the surface, and thinks it is profound. All modern life has been misled by it.”
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“I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
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“If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us… know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience.”
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“The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.”
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“If I give you an answer, you’ll think you understand.”
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“Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart?”
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“How it is we have so much information, but know so little?”
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“Mysticism rises from and returns to the irreducible, unsayable reality of ‘this.’ ‘This’ is the Way. This is the way.”
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“If we try to solve society’s problems without overcoming the confusion and aggression in our own state of mind, then our efforts will only contribute to the basic problems.”
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