Nothing to ingratiate yourself, make or lose merit.
Nothing you do effects it.
All you do: you rattle and roll, or you sit and hum,
It is always present and silent and blissful.
You'd do well then to take its example and join it.
Bodhidharma, the startling awakening
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*"If you want to abandon the unreal and turn to the real, sit steadily and
gaze at a wall. Self and other, ordinary people and enlightened ones, are
one an...
4 years ago
1 comments:
Good post. Reminds me of the old zen story that teaches you can't become a buddha by sitting zen nor more than you can make a tile a mirror by rubbing it.
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