"Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate."

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Source : "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 79, 1958.

Huangbo Xiyun

#Positivity Quotes #Mind Quotes #Stones Quotes

“To break the pentameter, that was the first heave”
“Television is a triumph of equipment over people,”
“Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.”
“As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.”
“Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.”
“A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.”
“For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.”

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