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buddhism
In what is now known as Bodh Gaya…a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from....
mindfulness
The mystical perception (which is only “mystical” if reality is limited to what can be measured by....
funny quotes
Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years....
holiness
In his first summers, forsaking all his toys, my son would stand rapt for nearly an hour in his sandbox....
spirit
Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal....
buddhism
I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air,....
meditation
When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted,....
death
And it is a profound consolation, perhaps the only one, to this haunted animal that wastes most of a....
mindfulness
The central feature of the practice of meditation and hard work known as Zen is that, as Matthiessen....
peace
The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply,....
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