"What I am trying to say is that the person who could treat you good and really love you could already be in your life, but you could have been blinded by the things you want in a man so you overlooked the person that you were really looking for."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Zen is beyond this: there is no man, no woman. During #Zazen, no female, no male. No masculine, no feminine. The sexual organs are not at all important. Women in #Zazen are better off-they don’t have testicles which get in their way."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. — Deshimaru
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"Everything in the universe is connected. Everything is osmosis. You cannot separate any part from the whole interdependence rules the cosmic order."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Deshimaru
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"Descartes said, 'I think, therefore I am.' I say, 'I do not think, that is why I exist.'"
– Taisen Deshimaru
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Deshimaru
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"#Zazen is like water in a glass. Leave the water to sit quietly and soon the dirt will sink down, down, and the water will become pure."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve – as if you might die in the next instant."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Religions remain what they are. Zen is #meditation. meditation is the foundation of every religion."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Think with your whole body."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Deshimaru
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"#Zazen means to stop running after and to stop running away."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"To have a few precious stones is better than to have many pebbles. If everyone became a precious stone, then the stones would lose their value."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"The error of #democracy is that people imitate others and do not create anything."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. — Deshimaru
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"Sometimes I am a philosopher, sometimes a religious person, sometimes a monk, sometimes an educator, sometimes a whiskey-drinker."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"To have #compassion is to have the same mind as the other."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Zen is physical education. It is not a gymnastic, nor is it a martial art. The action of the body influences mind and consciousness."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, the technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, the mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"Even if we hate the weed, and even if we abandon this hate of the weed, it will grow."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"What is called #Zazen is sitting on a zafu in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"During #Zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It’s exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give."
– Taisen Deshimaru
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. — Deshimaru
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