Richard West

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
― Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius

“Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.”
― Dogen

“To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.”
― Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation