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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural
moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil |
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both natural and spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism. |
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Tie two birds together. Even though they have four wings they cannot fly |
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A horse has no udders and a Cow can't whinney and up is down and sideways is straight ahead |
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He is a great monk who can sleep soundly in the dark recesses of the misty mountains |
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Who knows but life be that which men call death, and death what men call life? |
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The one who keeps the Tao is not affected by praise or blame. Knowing the truth, one is not afraid no matter what happens |
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At this moment there is nothing to do but have a good laugh |
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One is taught in accordance to one's fitness to learn |
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Searching for the Mind is like looking for the footprints of birds in the sky |
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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires |
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When hungry, eat when tired, sleep |
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Cord, each moment that passes changes you, you do not, you cannot possess even your self, How can you hope to possess anyone or anything else? |
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If one does not begin with the right attitude, there is little hope for a right ending |
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You can't step on the same piece of water twice |
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Zazen is itself enlightment |
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The more I learn, the more I realize that I know nothing |
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You cannot enter a place you never left |
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There are only two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle |
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Any thing you think I am or want me to be, I am |
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Break out from inside, and your power is strong. Break in from outside, and your power is weak. |
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To know and to act are one and the same |
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Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely |
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Each morning when I awake like a scholar at his first class, I prepare a blank mind for the day, to write upon |
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free, Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. |
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Is not a happy man one who does not fear death? Not only does he not fear it, his days are filled with joy looking forward to it |
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I was asked, "Are you a god or a man?" I replied, "neither, I am awake" |
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Karma means you don't get away with anything |
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Stay centered, do not overstretch. Extend from your center, return to your center |
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A mistake is not serious unless it is repeated |
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Spiritual life should include a great measure of common sense |
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Wherever you live is your temple if you treat it like one |
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From practicing structured form sets, one should arrive beyond these form sets, just the same as from the compulsory to freedom from restriction |
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A man should always think of the source of the water as he drinks it |
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When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, it is best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack |
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Intercept what comes; pursue what departs; when the hands are freed of obstructions, attack instinctively |
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You may move first, but I move faster |
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The true source and founder of Bai Mei is the tiger, the proof of this fact is born in its face and supported by its character |
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Even a good thing isn't so good as nothing |
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For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one |
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Art is an expression of life which transcends both time and space |
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A second offense is not permitted |
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The path and gateway have no meaning, once the objective is in sight |
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Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless-like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. |
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The instant you speak about a thing you miss the mark |
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Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true |
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Taoist teachings are very practical. They teach that we are each responsible for our own state of being, that is to say, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual |
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It is far better to practice a single kick one thousand
times then to do a thousand kicks once |
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To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not
the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill. |
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Learn to listen to that which is not spoken |
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Most people spend their time longing for results without undertaking efforts to achieve them |
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Live lightly on the Earth |
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When student is ready the teacher will appear |
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The closer you stand to the lighthouse, the darker it gets |
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Flowing water never turns bad |
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The taut bow loses its strength..........and The sword can't cut itself |
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Never seek happiness outside yourself |
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People become what they expect themselves to become |
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The fool who knows he is a fool is for that very reason wise. The fool who thinks himself wise is the greatest fool of all |
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When someone's character is not clear to you look at that person's friends |
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Before you can defend against a knife, you must learn to fight with a knife |
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Invincibility lies in defense, the possibility of victory in the attack |
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The stronger and more intense the enemy attacks, the deeper we go with the knife |
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The process of learning is often more important then what is being learned |
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A weak man can always develop into a strong man, but a woman can never be a man |
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Listen more than you speak |
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Whatever is created will live, whatever lives will die, whatever dies will live again |
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Just do it |
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Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is the best thing for you |
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Always be unpredictably unpredictable |
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The teacher can open the door but you must enter by yourself |
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When two Eskrimadors play, the one with more skill, nerve, or luck will win; and I have never lost |
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If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear. |
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Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow, come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a great tree in the midst of them all. |
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Every time I look around, receive someone's words, or encounter a person's actions, it sure makes me glad of who I am |
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The way of the monkey is to play the fool. While you laugh at his antics, he bites you from behind. Unmask his ego and you expose a coward disguised as a monkey. |
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What is your original face before your mother and father were born? |
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How old is my soul? |
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If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water |
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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool |
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Haven't I passed through here before? |
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If you take care of each moment, you will take care of all time |
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Oh! the living hypocrisy |
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The fool is the twin of the wise |
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The way that can be walked on is not the perfect way. The word that can be said is not the perfect word. |
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All forms of energy possess inertia |
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Things are as they are because they were as they were |
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Provando e riprovando (Verify the one and disprove the other) |
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Sometimes I just want to crawl in a hole and pull it in after me |
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In the old days, men sought knowledge in order to improve themselves. Nowadays, men seek knowledge to impress other people. |
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If you allow yourself to become lazy and fall prey to procrastination, you will not find harmony in your family. Your inner vitality cannot be awakened and you will get nowhere. |
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To find the essence of Shao-Lin Chuan, one must develop patience and perseverance. This will lead to the finding of inner truth. |
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Things have their roots and branches, human affairs have their endings and beginnings, to know what comes first and what comes afterwards is to approach the principles of the great. |
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Water which is too pure has no fish |
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Extensive study, constant practice |
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Everyone knows soft eventually conquers hard, but no one knows how to put it into practice |
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If you want one year of prosperity, plant corn If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees If you want one hundred years of prosperity, educate people |
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When drinking the water, remember the source; Honor those from whom our blessings flow |
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For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction |
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Truth has the power to dispel the darkness of ignorance just as the candle has the power to light a cave that has been dark for a million years |
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Energy can be changed in form, but it cannot be created or destroyed |
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Guessing is cheap; guessing wrong is expensive |
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I truly believe that everything happens for a reason |
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Kinetic energy is a measure of the work a moving body will do as it is being stopped, while momentum is a measure of the impulse or impact of a moving body when it hits another body. |
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Power is defined as the rate at which work is done or the rate at which energy is transformed. |
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I am as serious as death itself when it comes to the study and practice of martial arts |
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As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant. |
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change |