"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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"Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people’s minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!"
– Taisen Deshimaru
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"In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others."
– Thich Thien-An
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"The farther away you are from the truth, the more the hateful and pleasurable states will arise. There is also self-deception."
– Bodhidharma
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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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"Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well."
– Jack Kornfield
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The Sakya Monastery in tibet has a library comprising some 84,000 books. Most are Buddhist scriptures, but there are works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art. They date back centuries.
In 2011 they began to digitize the library. All books are indexed and about 20% have been fully digitized.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Mo…
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