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A simple answer to a hard age-old question and a good introduction to Zen for children
Just as intellectual discussion about food cannot satisfy hunger, wisdom cannot come from outside oneself.
When we blame someone or something for a problem, we are trying to separate ourselves from our karma.…
Student: What is real? Master: The moment you achieve enlightenment, you will realize it. Before you achieve enlightenment, nothing is real. …
From Zen Master Miao Tsan, "True liberation is the ability to remain in a state of complete freedom in the midst of impermanence. It is the ability to live in this changing world from an unchanging oneness of mind and matter. In…
In physics every action triggers a reaction; in human beings, every reaction strengthens the triggering action. Therefore anger never works because how matter how anger is expressed or channeled, it always brings back the undesirable. Only by dissolving the reaction at the source can you find a way out.
