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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Yuanwu Keqin

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Keqin, Yuanwu. 碧巖錄 [The Blue Cliff Record]. c. 1125.

Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray.

Jianzhi Sengcan

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Seng Ts'an. Xinxin Ming. c. 600.

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Seng Ts'an. Hsin-Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind, translated by Richard B. Clarke. White Pine Press, 2001.

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Dogen

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Dogen. "Genjo Koan [Actualizing the Fundamental Point]." Shobogenzo, c. 1253.

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Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra [The Diamond Sutra]. c. 868.

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The Diamond Sutra, translated by Red Pine. Counterpoint, 2002.

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Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen. Vintage Books, 1957.

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Watts, Alan. Play to Live: Selected Seminars. And Books, 1982.

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Shantideva. बोधिसत्त्वाचर्यावतार [Bodhicaryavatara]. c. 700, ch. 8.

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Shantideva. The Bodhicaryavatara, translated by Kat Crosby and Andrew Skilton. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 8.

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Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill, 1970. Originally a talk given at his Zen center in c. 1969, Los Altos, CA, USA.

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Watts, Alan. Become What You Are. Shambhala, 1995.

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Linji Yixuan [I-Hsuan]. Recorded conversation with Zen Master I-Hsuan. c. 866 AD.

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Linji Yixuan. Quoted in A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, translated and compiled by Wing-tsit Chan. Princeton University Press, 2008.

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Lama, Dalai. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec. 1989, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Hanh, Thich Nhat. Being Peace. Parallax Press, 1987.

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Yoshida Kenko. Tsurezuregusa [Essays in Idleness]. c. 1332, ch. 13.

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Yoshida Kenko. Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, translated by Donald Keene. Columbia University Press, 1998, ch. 13.

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Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen. Vintage Books, 1957.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma. c. 550.

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, translated by Red Pine. North Point Press, 1989.

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Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill, 1970. Originally a talk given at his Zen center in c. 1969, Los Altos, CA, USA.

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Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill, 1970. Originally a talk given at his Zen center in c. 1969, Los Altos, CA, USA.

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Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill, 1970. Originally a talk given at his Zen center in c. 1969, Los Altos, CA, USA.