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• A flower falls even though we love it and a weed grows even though we do not love it.

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• One moon shows in every pool in every pool the one moon.

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• Those who know don’t tell and those who tell don’t know.

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• Let the mind be like the lake that reflects all of the clouds passing over it without any sticking to it.

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• Clouds gone, the mountain appears.

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• When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

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• The ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear.

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• When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten.

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• When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.

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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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