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I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.

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Dogen

Sitting is the gateway of truth to total liberation.

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The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

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Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.

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In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

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When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

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Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.

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I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.

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Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps. . . as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.

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It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.

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