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XI. 剛毅 XI. Strength
nirvana—our true nature of no birth and no death.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders
HSUAN-TSUNG says, “Thirty spokes converging on a hub demonstrates that less is the ancestor of more.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
here and now, I lack nothing, and I am complete and whole.
Salvadore Poe • The Way of Freedom: Conversations with Salvadore Poe
CHIAO HUNG says, “The previous 5,000 words all explain ‘the Tao of not accumulating,’ what Buddhists call ‘nonattachment.’ Those who empty their mind on the last two lines will grasp most of Lao-tzu’s text.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
A famous Zen master, while weighing flax on a scale, was once asked the meaning of Zen by a student. Without taking his concentrated eyes off the scale, he adjusted the weights and said, “Three pounds of flax.”
David Whyte • The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
What brings me peace is____________.
Thus nirvana is the equivalent of moksha, release or liberation. Seen from one side, it appears to be despair–the recognition that life utterly defeats our efforts to control it, that all human striving is no more than a vanishing hand clutching at clouds. Seen from the other side, this despair bursts into joy and creative power, on the principle t
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WU CH’ENG says, “A sage’s nonaction is nonaction that is not nonaction. Edges always cut. But the edge that is not an edge does not cut. Points always pierce. But the point that is not a point does not pierce. Lines always extend. But the line that is not a line does not extend. Lights always blind. But the light that is not a light does not blind.
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