David Given Schwarm

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Fifteenth Annotation. The fifteenth: He who is giving the Exercises ought not to influence him who is receiving them more to poverty or to a promise, than to their opposites, nor more to one state or way of life than to another. For though, outside the Exercises, we can lawfully and with merit influence every…

Red Book 14

I resisted recognizing that the everyday belongs to the image of the Godhead. I fled this thought, I hid myself behind the highest and coldest stars.

47. Three Gates of Tosotsu

Tosotsu built three barriers and made the monks pass through them. The first barrier is studying Zen. In studying Zen the aim is to see one’s own true nature. Now where is your true nature? Secondly, when one realizes his own true nature he will be free from birth and death. Now when you shut…

41. Reduction

41. Reduction Reduction.Have confidence,it is a source of good fortune.Without fault,it allows for persistence.It is beneficial to have a goal to move to.How to do this?Two bamboo bowls are suitable to be used for sacrifice. There is a reduction of something. It is not a real problem, one can use this situation to one’s advantage…

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Sex Film 1. Star Wars 2. Lord of the Rings 3. Godfather 4. Matrix 5. Clockwork Orange

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20. Examining

20. Examining Examining.Washed, but not offered.There is confidence in discretion. Examining what is there, without doing anything. This cautious and unrevealing attitude makes confidence possible.(This is about a sacrificial offering, where the ritual consists of a washing and an offering.) (No changing lines.)