When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish. - Huangbo Xiyun

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When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself in the place of the alien rather than describing it from an outside point of view.

Huangbo Xiyun

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

All Things, Arise, Thinking, Thoughts, Vanish

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The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

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Our original nature is. . . void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

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People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don't realize is that their own mind is the void.

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The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his real nature, how can there be anywhere or anything separate from it?. . . . . . Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same. '

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Consider the sunlight. You may say that it is near, yet if you pursue it from world to world you will never catch it. You may say it is far, yet it is right before your eyes. Chase it and it always eludes you; run from it and it is always there. From this example you can understand how it is with the true nature of things.

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