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.
“We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.”
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“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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“KODO SAWAKI: Studying originally meant aspiring to discover the meaning of life. These days studying has become all about getting a job.”
― Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
― Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
“I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.”
― Forrest Gump
― Forrest Gump
“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
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