Thich Thien-An Quotes

• So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.

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  Life, Water, Mind

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• If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

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  Contentment, Accepting, Knows

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• Since everything is interrelated, since all things depend one upon another, nothing is absolute, nothing is separate, but all are part of the one indivisible whole.

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  All Things, Indivisible, Whole

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• In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.

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  Knowledge, Knowing, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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• Each season has its own beauty.
  To practice meditation is to open the mind so that all of them may be enjoyed.
  When each season comes we should enjoy it;
  & when it goes, we should let it go and open our mind to the next season.

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  Practice, Meditation, Mind

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• We all shed salty tears and shed red blood. All is one.

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  Blood, Tears, Red

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• The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.

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  Beauty, Simplicity, Tranquility

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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.

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  Happiness, Buddhism, Evil

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• To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

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  Kindness, Anger, Buddhism

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