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> 38 quotes tagged "non-duality"
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Let go of the years. Forget artificial distinctions. Leap into the boundless realm and make it your home.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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Great understanding is broad and unhurried. Small understanding is cramped and anxious.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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The hundred joints, nine openings, and six organs all exist in harmony. Which should I prefer? Do you treat them all as servants?Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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To wear out your brain trying to unify things without knowing they're already the same is called 'three in the morning.'Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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When 'this' and 'that' cease to be opposites, you've found the pivot of the Way.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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Heaven and earth exist together with me. All things and I are one.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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He who knows he's a fool is not the biggest fool. He who knows he's confused is not in the worst confusion.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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Joy and anger, sorrow and happiness, hope and fear arise and pass like music from hollowness, like mushrooms from dampness.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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When you wear out your mind trying to make things one, without realizing they already share a common nature, it's called using three in the morning.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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Once Chuang Tzu dreamt he was a butterfly. When he woke, he didn't know if he was a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of being a man.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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If you're going to pile up achievements, you must have a foundation. But where can you find a foundation that has no location?Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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The wise person considers both loss and gain, so neither fortune nor misfortune disturbs them.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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Forget about time. Forget about distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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Great knowing is expansive and leisurely. Small knowing is picky and fault-finding.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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If you understand the oneness of things, then nothing seems separate. If you maintain this understanding, gain and loss become one.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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When the heart is right, for and against are forgotten. Even in a crooked reflection, true seeing remains undistorted.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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The greatest sacrifice leaves something, the greatest ritual has no rule, the greatest music has no sound, the greatest image has no form.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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Making the whole world agree that something is wrong doesn't make you right. Making the whole world agree you're right doesn't make you so.Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2: The Equality of Things
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Take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, your feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 2
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Those who wish to attain oneness must practice undiscriminating virtue. They must dissolve all ideas of duality: good and bad, beautiful and ugly, high and low.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 7
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Those who are highly evolved maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 19
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Why not trust the plainness and simplicity of the Integral Way? Living with unconditional sincerity, eradicating all duality, celebrating the equality of things, your every moment will be in truth.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 25
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Live a quiet and simple life, free of ideas and concepts. Find contentment in the practice of undiscriminating virtue, the only true power. Your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 47
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When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. One sees only two immaculate beings, reflecting one another like a pair of brilliant mirrors.Hua Hu Jing, Verse 73
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.Alan Watts
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Everything that happens, everything that I have ever done, everything that anybody else have ever done is part of a harmonious design, that there is no error at all.Alan Watts
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Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery — the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets — is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.Alan Watts
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The world is precisely the relationship between the world and its witnesses, and so if there are no eyes in this world, the sun doesn't make any light, nor do the stars.Alan Watts
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Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.Zen proverb
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We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.Thich Nhat Hanh
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The Wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear
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Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are still one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.Shunryu Suzuki
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Before thinking good and evil, what is your original face?Blue Cliff Record — Huineng
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All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but the One Mind, beside which nothing exists.Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, tr. John Blofeld
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To use the mind to look for reality is delusion. Not to use the mind to look for reality is awareness.Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, tr. John Blofeld
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Our original nature is, in highest truth, devoid of any atom of objectivity. It is void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy — and that is all.Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, tr. John Blofeld
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The void is not really void, but the realm of the real Dharma. This spiritually illuminating silence is without beginning or end.Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, tr. John Blofeld
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When the ten thousand things are viewed in their oneness, we return to the origin and remain where we have always been.Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, tr. John Blofeld