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Dropping Ashes on the Buddha. It’s by Zen Master Seung Sahn,
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
A June 1980 documentary from national broadcaster NHK, Young Plaza: 24 Hours in Harajuku followed a fifteen-year-old takenoko-zoku member, “Yayoi,”
W. David Marx • Ametora
They had achieved wa kei sei jaku—harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility, the four principles of the Way of Tea.
Cixin Liu • Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Book 3)
Greeting him was a man named Zhang Xiang, the same young man who—along with Shi Qiang—had sent him off five years ago, and who now was in charge of security. He had aged considerably in five years and now looked like a middle-aged man.
Cixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
She didn’t find him unpleasant, but her heart was like ashes from which the flame of love could no longer be lit.
Liu, Cixin • The Three-Body Problem
Apprehending the principle of things
The name of this collection is from Confucian scholar Hsi Chu
“Don’t worry. He has found emptiness.” Yes, I had found emptiness. Now I could be at peace in a bustling city. Even in the midst of a noisy crowd, my heart would be completely tranquil.
Ken Liu • The Three-Body Problem (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 1)
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