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Shunryu Suzuki Quotes: When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.
         

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.


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It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.



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