The obstacle is the path.
More Zen Proverbs:
One day a student asked Taiga, "What is the most difficult part of painting?" Taiga answered, "The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult."Zen
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.
Zen
Chop wood, carry water.
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Before you study Zen, a bowl is a bowl and tea is tea. While you are studying Zen, a bowl is no longer a bowl and tea is no longer tea. After you've studied Zen, a bowl is again a bowl and tea is tea.
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Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.
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Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived.
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