If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Here’s how to live: Do nothing.
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
The secret is to renounce nothing, cling to nothing, enjoy everything and allow it to pass, to flow.
Simply do this: be still and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is, all concepts you have learned about the world, all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. 8
If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
"A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions.
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