Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“To exert yourselves in religious practice, trying to produce enlightenment by doing religious practices and zazen, is all wrong too... by wanting to realize enlightenment, you create a duality between the one who realizes enlightenment and what it is that's being realized... When you cherish even the smallest desire to realize enlightenment, right away you leave behind the realm of the Unborn and go against the Buddha Mind.”

Bankei Yōtaku 盤珪永琢 1622 – 1693 CE
Zen Master of the unborn

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