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“If you wish to understand, know that a sudden comprehension comes when the mind has been purged of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity. Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. 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.1”
― Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind

“has never been either tainted or pure, clamorous or quiet, young or old. It has neither direction nor locus, neither inside nor outside, neither size nor form, neither color nor sound. It cannot be sought or pursued, comprehended through wisdom, expressed in language, contacted through sense objects, or reached through meritorious practices.”
― Seon Master Subul, A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace: The Zen Teaching of Huangbo with a Modern Commentary

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
― Nick Maggiulli, Just Keep Buying: Proven ways to save money and build your wealth

“The majority of mankind would need to be much better cultivated than has ever yet been the case, before they can be asked to place such reliance in their own power of estimating arguments, as to give up practical principles in which they have been born and bred and which are the basis of much of the existing order of the world, at the first argumentative attack which they are not capable of logically resisting.3”
― Ward Farnsworth, The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook