Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Alan Watts
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  1. Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

  2. Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

  3. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.

  4. Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

  5. If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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