"Refrain from all that is divisive 
and contentious... do what 
promotes harmony and unity."
Steve Hagen

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Everything's the same, even if it's different.

"You're looking at what is called a book. 
You conceive of it as separate from other things. 
However, it's intimately connected with everything 
else in the universe... This book is not merely this book, 
it is the sun as well. If not for the sun, trees would not 
grow to produce the pulp to make the paper. 
And we cannot forget Ts'ai Lun, who invented paper 
in the second century, or Johann Gutenberg, who found a way to apply movable type to a printing press in the fifteenth century. And intermixed with the trees 
and the sun and creative human minds are other things. We cannot ignore language, time, soil, plants, animals, emotions, or thoughts. We cannot forget the rain, or even the stars, or the galaxies of stars. Indeed, 
there is nothing we can point to, or even imagine, 
that does not find its way into this book."

(Steve Hagen)

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the illusion of Good and Bad

Nothing in this world is truly good or bad. 

And the things that we perceive as "good" and "bad" are in all of us. 

Our lives and our world exist in flux, or constant change. The best we can do is to see. 

To look and observe without judgment. And offer everything around us endless love.

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"Enlightenment [is] nothing more or less 

than seeing things as they are rather than 

as we wish or believe them to be."

Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple

Zen writer and priest

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