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1970·San Francisco, USA
What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no 'I,' no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door.
When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.
Heraclitus·500 BCNo man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.
Ovid·8 ADNothing is permanent in all the world. All things are fluid; every image forms, wandering through change. Time itself flows on in constant motion, just like a river, for neither the river nor the swift hour can stop its course; but as wave impels wave, and as each wave comes, the one before is both impelled by the next and impels the one ahead, so time both flees and follows and is always new.
Lao Tzu·500 BCLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.
