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If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

Shunryu Suzuki

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Shunryu Suzuki
Age: 67 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 18
Died: 1971
Died: December 4
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