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... Mind refuses to speak . If frogs had wings , they could fly . Alone in cloisters , the Mind is perfectly at rest , looking neither in upon itself nor out upon the world . The poet breathes . The poet would make a pure , living language ...
... Mind refuses to speak . If frogs had wings , they could fly . Alone in cloisters , the Mind is perfectly at rest , looking neither in upon itself nor out upon the world . The poet breathes . The poet would make a pure , living language ...
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... mind ; the " Buddhism ” attached to Zen was , to him , almost superfluous . And he did , during his years in Edo , study Zen under the priest Butchō ( 1642-1715 ) , apparently even to the point of considering the monastic life , but ...
... mind ; the " Buddhism ” attached to Zen was , to him , almost superfluous . And he did , during his years in Edo , study Zen under the priest Butchō ( 1642-1715 ) , apparently even to the point of considering the monastic life , but ...
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... mind . When we first met the Chinese calligrapher Yim Tse , he presented us with a scroll which reads , " Great things begin in the heart . " Of course , the earliest Chinese books were scrolls , and the educated mind was expected to ...
... mind . When we first met the Chinese calligrapher Yim Tse , he presented us with a scroll which reads , " Great things begin in the heart . " Of course , the earliest Chinese books were scrolls , and the educated mind was expected to ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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