"Meditation Is Good For Nothing" - Zen Master Shohaku Okumura ( English Subtitles )

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"Meditation Is Good For Nothing" - Zen Master Shohaku Okumura ( English Subtitles )

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Courage

Courage is better than cowardice

Truth

Realism is better than dogmatism

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Honor is better than dishonor

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Ancestry is better than rootlessness

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Strength is better than weakness

Hospitality

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Self--Reliance

Freedom is better than slavery

Industriousness

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Perseverance

Joy is better than guilt

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If you've the strength to look there

From frost to fire

I'll leave your desire at the door

No more

Lives to wait

In time, I'll lose all designs

And nothing left undone

Never again

To "speak in tongues"

To see with sight of closed eyes

The visions of the wise

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