"Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment."

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Source : Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

John Daido Loori

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“Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.”
“I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was just me and my momma. We were really, really close. Learning to live in the world without her has been incredibly hard. At first, it didn't make any sense - how to do it, to live without her - but you slowly get somewhat used to it.”

Source : "Actor Annie Wersching: Losing her mom and the curative powers of a good night's sleep". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.”
“President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.”
“An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.”
“The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015
“We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.”
“It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”

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