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Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

by Shozan Jack Haubner

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Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu's Talks on Linji

by Hōsekī Schīnīchī Hisamatsu

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"I've set this aside while I read Genjokoan. Great teishos in the Rinzai tradition. Great teachings, but one Zen book at a time is plenty." — May 13, 2013 12:32AM

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Ecology of the Planted Aquarium

by Diana Walstad

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“For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

tags: explanation, understand

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“atheism” ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man.

Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842”
― Karl Marx

tags: atheists

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“He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

tags: faith, fate, religion-and-philoshophy

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“I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations

tags: political-philosophy, politics, wisdom

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“It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.”
― Okakura Kakuzo 1862-1913, The Book of Tea

tags: observation

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