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Thus, Buddhism is better understood as a skill or an art to be practiced and perfected rather than as information or knowledge to be learned and amassed.
“Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”
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“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.
We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
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We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
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“A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.”
― The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
― The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.”
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“All comparison is based on memory, and memory is an image based on engrams. It follows that all judgement, evaluation, is an interpretation of images, for even the present is already a memory by the time we have seized it.
Therefore the unending process of finding things "good" or "not so good" is a work of imagination. Would in not be futile indeed to suppose that such judgments, that is any and all judgments, could have any absolute existence or value?”
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Therefore the unending process of finding things "good" or "not so good" is a work of imagination. Would in not be futile indeed to suppose that such judgments, that is any and all judgments, could have any absolute existence or value?”
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