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“All reasons and principles come from emptiness. The meaning of this sentence is impossible to explain—be so good as to reflect on it yourself.”

“The body of a rock is the state of an unmoving mind, powerful and large.
Something inexhaustible that comes from the universal principle exists in the body. It is through this that the power of the mind resides in every living being. The grass and trees, which do not have a consciousness, are powerfully rooted in the earth. This mind is also found in the rain and the wind.”

“The essence of strategy is solely that the mind learns virtue from it.”