When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.

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do not view mountains from the scale of human thought

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Because mountains are high and broad, the way of riding the clouds is always reached in the mountains; the inconceivable power of soaring in the wind comes freely from the mountains

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Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

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To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

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To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.

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Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

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One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

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A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

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