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Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.

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Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, …

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Think with your whole body.

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You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

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The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

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Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imaginati…

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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.

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If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

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