Enlightenment is when the wave realizes it is the ocean. —Thich Nhat Hahn

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We are a wave appearing on the surface of the ocean. The body of a wave does not last very long - perhaps only ten to twenty seconds. 

The wave is subject to beginning and ending, to going up and coming down. The wave may be caught in the idea that ‘I am here now, and I won’t be here later.’ And the wave may feel afraid or even angry. 

But the wave also has her ocean body. She has come from the ocean, and she will go back to the ocean. She has both her wave body and her ocean body. She is not only a wave; she is also the ocean. 

The wave does not need to look for a separate ocean body, because she is in this very moment both her wave body and her ocean body. As soon as the wave can go back to herself and touch her true nature, which is water, then all fear and anxiety disappear.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

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You are the traveler, you are the path and you are the destination,

 never losing the way to yourself.

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question

empty only of a separate existence

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Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara,

Sitting in the depth of knowledge,

Lit the glow of his wisdom five elements

And saw that all of them are empty.

After this enlightenment he overcame the pain.

Listen, Shariputra,

Form - a void, emptiness - is the form

Form - is nothing but emptiness,

Void - it is nothing but a form.

The same is true for the senses,

Perceptions of mental activity and consciousness.

Listen, Shariputra,

All dharmas are empty properties.

They do not create and are not exterminable,

Are not dirty and are not cleaned,

Do not grow or shrink.

Hence, in the void

There is no form, no feelings, no perceptions,

No mental activity or consciousness.

There is no dependent origination

No eyes, no ears, no nose,

No tongue, no body, no mind.

There is no form, no sound, no smell,

No taste, no touch, no object of mind.

No sphere of elements, ranging from eye

And the ending of consciousness.

And it is not fading, from ignorance

And ending with death and decay.

There is no source of suffering and misery,

No Cessation of Suffering

And there is no way to end suffering.

There is no wisdom and no progress.

Since there is no progress, all the Bodhisattvas,

Relying on perfect wisdom,

No obstacles are in your mind.

With no obstacles, they overcome fear,

Forever exempt from error

And reach true nirvana.

Thanks to this perfect wisdom,

All the Buddhas of the past, present and future

Enter into a full, true and total enlightenment.

Therefore, to know that perfect wisdom

Expressed unsurpassed mantra,

The highest mantra, devastating suffering

Perfect and true.

Hence, the mantra Prajnaparamita

Must be declared.

Here is the mantra:

Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.

Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.

Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.

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a treasure

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only the rice loves you

louie louie

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