Selected quotes from Games Zen Masters Play
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May 11, 2025
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Selected quotes from Games Zen Masters Play
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“God plays hide-and-seek with himself, since the self is all there is”
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“We usually take our own role in society very seriously, forgetting who we really are”
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“The only difference between the unenlightened and the enlightened man is that the enlightened man is six inches off the ground”
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“Life is a unitary process which we learn to divide into subject and object and then spend our lives worrying over how to get it back together”
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“Every man is enlightened, but wishes he wasn’t. Every man knows he must love his enemies, and sell all he has and give it to the poor, but he doesn’t wish to know it — so he asks questions”
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“Unless we taste the world, it is tasteless; it is void of suchness. But this tasting is not to be a choosing, tasting some and not tasting others”
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Rain, hail, and snow /
Ice too, are set apart, /
But when they fall — /
The same water of the valley stream
Ice too, are set apart, /
But when they fall — /
The same water of the valley stream
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood. /
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly understood”
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly understood”
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“To love God and love one’s fellow man — there is nothing beyond this, nothing that requires explanations”
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“Love, and do as you please”
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“Life is what one wants in one’s soul”
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“One day, Joshu fell down in the snow, and called out, ‘Help me up! Help me up!’ A monk came and lay down beside him. Joshu got up and went away”
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“Rejoice with him who rejoices, and weep with him who weeps; but don’t take either too seriously”
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“People ask why and how as an excuse for not doing what they know they should do”
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“The more we suffer, intelligibly, the deeper our life”
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“To prop what must fall is foolish; rather, give it a push”
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> “What is the difference between an elephant and a mail box?”
> “I don’t know”
> “Okay then I won’t ask you to mail a letter!”
> “I don’t know”
> “Okay then I won’t ask you to mail a letter!”