“If you throw a stone into a lake, it makes waves on the surface. Eventually the waves disappear, but just because you can longer see them does not mean that they are really gone. They have just become too small for us to see them. In the same way, we calm our mind by half, half, half… and the waves of the mind become infinitely calm. They never actually stop.”

—  Koichi Tohei

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