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Hwadu 50 Q : If I killed a thief, I would be breaking Buddha’s precepts; If I didn’t, I would be disobeying the order of the king. What would you do, Zen Master? A : Forget about all that and show me anything that can be stolen.
“The Way has never known boundaries; speech has no constancy. But because of [the recognition of a] “this,” there came to be boundaries.... There is left, there is right, there are theories, there are debates.... The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate among them and parade their discrimination before others. So I say, “those who discriminate fail to see.”30”
― Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light
― Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light
“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
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“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.”
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“The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.”
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“The man who is ready to prove that metaphysical knowledge is wholly impossible has no right here to any answer. He must be referred for conviction to the body of this treatise. And he can hardly refuse to go there, since he himself has, perhaps unknowingly, entered the arena. He is a brother metaphysician with a rival theory of first principles.”
― Appearance and Reality
― Appearance and Reality
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