Muso Soseki Quotes

• When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

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  Heart, Garden, Religion

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• When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home.

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  Home, Matter, Headings

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• When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

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  Art, Confused, Ice

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• The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

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  Reality, People, Ordinary

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• It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

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  Practice, Relaxation, Littles

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• Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.

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  Dream, Views, Giving

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• If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.

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  Teaching, Wrong Person, Persons

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• Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating

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  Helping Others, May, Awakening

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