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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.

  Topics in Zen Proverbs

• Knock on the sky and Listen to the sound.

  Topics in Zen Proverbs

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

  Topics in Zen Proverbs

• 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.

  Topics in Zen Proverbs

• 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.

  Topics in Zen Proverbs

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

  Topics in Zen Proverbs

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

  Topics in Zen Proverbs

• A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.

  Topics in Zen Proverbs

• Who asks at once for a lot, returns home with an empty bag.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• Where there are no laws, they can’t be broken.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• When the big bells ring, the little bells are not heard.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• What is impossible to change is best to forget.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• There is little use building a fence around the garden to keep out the rabbits.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• The place of an uninvited guest is behind the door.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• Tell the truth and run.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• Patience can break through iron doors.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• On your own donkey it is quicker than on someone else’s racehorse.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• No one likes to be the first to step on the ice.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• Nine gamblers could not feed a single rooster.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs

• Man is learning all his life and yet he dies in ignorance.

  Topics in Yugoslavian Proverbs