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always braid your silver serpents

Joined March 2009
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the spirally voluted wind jewel
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a black silver sky of broken film
the house you live in will never fall down if you pity the stranger who stands at your door
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looked out at the snow feeling somewhere between happy & sad
Every action we perform leaves an imprint or potentiality on our very subtle mind, and each imprint eventually gives rise to its own effect.
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what hassan i sabbah learned in egypt was that paradise actually exists & that it can be reached
Don’t bother looking for a real hidden meaning under the rhetoric The rhetoric is the discursive reality that they seek to hegemonize
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the arhan's denial of reality becomes the bodhisattva's affirmation
a ray of winter light flickers in the void
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the absence of attributes in order to break through appearances
'the fleetest beast to bear you to perfection is suffering'
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give the lion the heart of the lamb, and the lamb the force of the lion; and they will lie down in peace together
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"how does one realize zen?" he continues. budai then takes up his bag and continues on his way.
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one day a monk walks up to him and asks, "what is the meaning of zen?" budai drops his bag.
the center of the wheel does not turn
where neither it nor other finds its opposite is called the axis of the way #zhuangzi