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if you can create an honorable
livelihood, where you take your skills
and use them and you earn a living from
it, it gives you a sense of freedom and
allows you to balance your life the way
you want.
livelihood, where you take your skills
and use them and you earn a living from
it, it gives you a sense of freedom and
allows you to balance your life the way
you want.
You can break that big plan into small
steps and take the first step right away
steps and take the first step right away
Have a bias toward action - let's see
something happen now.
something happen now.
When you run an entrepreneurial business,
you have hurry sickness - you don't look
back, you advance and consolidate. But it
is such fun.
you have hurry sickness - you don't look
back, you advance and consolidate. But it
is such fun.
We were most creative when our back was
against the wall.
against the wall.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Fearful men experience extreme chronic anger as an inevitable byproduct of attachment
As long as you’re going to be thinking
anyway, think big."
anyway, think big."
The mark of great sportsmen is not how
good they are at their best, but how good
they are at their worst.
good they are at their best, but how good
they are at their worst.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen
Humans prepare for the future all their lives, yet meet the next life totally unprepared
Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Love, attention, humour, and fun aren’t like money. If you give them out, you don’t have less, you have more.
People are not born low-level,
They are brought up that way.
They are brought up that way.
In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
If you meet the buddha, kill the Buddha.
After [his master's death], Ta-hui gathered all the [master's] publications together in front of the temple and made a bonfire of them. What the teacher builds in shape must be destroyed by the disciples in order to keep the teaching from becoming an empty shell. Western philosophers create their own theory then followers continue to repair the outer structure until it no longer resembles the original. In Zen we say, "Kill Buddha and the patriarchs; only then can you give them eternal life."
No dogma. No tradition. Each generation finds the truth anew, unchanged yet unlike that of the previous generation.
After [his master's death], Ta-hui gathered all the [master's] publications together in front of the temple and made a bonfire of them. What the teacher builds in shape must be destroyed by the disciples in order to keep the teaching from becoming an empty shell. Western philosophers create their own theory then followers continue to repair the outer structure until it no longer resembles the original. In Zen we say, "Kill Buddha and the patriarchs; only then can you give them eternal life."
No dogma. No tradition. Each generation finds the truth anew, unchanged yet unlike that of the previous generation.
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