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• This is it, but if you fixate on it, then it isn’t anymore.

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• When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float.

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• When you reach the top, keep climbing.

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• When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear.

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• To know and not do is not yet to know.

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• To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

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• The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

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• The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

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• The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

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• Sit, walk, or run, but don’t wobble.

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• One day a student asked Taiga, “What is the most difficult part of painting?” Taiga answered, “The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult.”

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• No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

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• Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life — after that you cannot be deceived.

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• Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it’s like gold; after you understand it, it’s like dung.

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• Knock on the sky and Listen to the sound.

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• It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn from others.

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• In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard.

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• If you want a certain thing, you must first be a certain person. Once you are that certain person, obtaining that certain thing will no longer be a concern of yours.

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• If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

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• Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

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