“According the Buddhist scriptures, a true guide is one who helps you to cross the turbulent river, then burns your boat for you.”

Chapters: 19. All Methods Become Obstacles

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“All (Buddhist) teachings are basically related with a way of subjugating our ego, shedding our ego.”

Chapters: 3. Weak Wishes, Strong Bones

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“All doctrines are limited and the dogma of the early Buddhists is inseparable from their cultural attitudes. It failed to see the phenomenal world as mother, sister, maiden, or child.”

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“Buddha teaches us not just to accept [violence] but to understand the cause of it and do something creative about it.”

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“Death can be regarded as a way of extending ourselves into the next life… as some kind of invitation to allow this thing we cherish so very much called our body, to perish.”

Chapters: 24. Unnecessary Baggage

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“Democracy is built on the attitude that I speak out for myself, the invincible me… but that approach doesn’t work.”

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“Everything is compartmentalized, so you can never experience things completely… packaged food, packaged vacations, package deals of all kinds. There is no room to experience doubtlessness in that world… no room to experience reality fully and properly.”

Chapters: 18. The Sick Society

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“In trying to fight for a grain of sesame seed each day, we lose track of our sky.”

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“Meditation in action is… awareness of how we... create our basic perceptions out of our preconceptions… and the games going on do not become big games but simply illusory games.”

Chapters: 12. This Over That

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“On the whole, it could be said that the discovery of confusion is enlightenment. When we discover confusion, the enlightened state becomes redundant. Discovering the confusion is the most important thing of all. It is facing reality and getting beyond the many kinds of self-deception.”

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“That big-deal quality of our perception is known as a veil that prevents us from relating with reality properly… it makes us more numb.”

Chapters: 63. Easy as Hard

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“The mother principle, the feminine principle of basic sanity is the basic ground of pure space uncorrupted by dualistic confusion. A fundamental and cosmic principle, it constantly gives birth churning out the colorful display of phenomena while protecting and nurturing discrimination.”

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“We are not saying that the feminine principle belongs to women and the masculine principle belongs to men. Realization does not belong to either sex. Wherever there is a perceiver, that is the masculine principle; wherever there is a perception, that is the feminine principle.”

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“We only develop by understanding ourselves.”

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“Whenever we talk about relationship, we manage to reduce ourselves into just simply one louse trying to fight another louse in the crack of a seam in our shirt — psychiatrists, marriage counselors, physicians, and local gurus all do that.”

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