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It is easy to get wrapped up in our thoughts and to lose sight of the fact that we need to stop and rest and that we need to feel. Buddha said: “Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”
Source: The Zen Teaching Of Huang Po: On The Transmission Of Mind
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