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“One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.”

Source/Notes: Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen (1982) ISBN 0880506687

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“I am the rich man's guru.”

Source/Notes: The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) ISBN 0880502509

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“I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women — and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.”

Source/Notes: The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)

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“I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.”

Source/Notes: From Darkness to Light

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“Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.”

Source/Notes: Ancient Music in the Pines

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“Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.”

Source/Notes: The Book of Wisdom

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“All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don't try to become. Within these two words — being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.”

Source/Notes: The Book of Wisdom

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“You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.”

Source/Notes: When the Shoe Fits

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“If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.”

Source/Notes: Come Follow To You, Vol. 2, Chapter 4; in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), Part 2.

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“Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.”

Source/Notes: Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

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“Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.”

Source/Notes: Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

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“Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.”

Source/Notes: Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

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“Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.”

Source/Notes: Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

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“Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.”

Source/Notes: Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)

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