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3 Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So (HarperCollins, 2002), 27–28
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8 Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So (HarperCollins, 2002), 56.
9 The Dalai Lama, Cultivating Compassion, tr. Jeffrey Hopkins (Broadway Books, 2001), 150.
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13 Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (John Weatherhill, Inc., 1970), 112.
14 Ibid., 112.
15 Dalai Lama, Essence of the Heart Sutra (Wisdom Publications, 2005), 12.
16 Ibid., 14.
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18 Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So (HarperCollins, 2002), 6.
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20 Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek (Simon and Schuster, 1964), 310–311.