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Being Upright: Zen Meditation and Bodhisattva Precepts (Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts)
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The ultimate intention of the second Pure Precept is to realize all goodness together with all beings. In other words, practicing this precept is intended to actualize the entire world as the embodiment of all goodness.
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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“the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development”
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“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
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