Since time without beginning, you have turned your back upon the light and run after darkness. The habits of erroneous thinking are so deep rooted in you that it would be extremely difficult to uproot them overnight. This is why one is compelled to resort to the use of make-believe expedients, in order to strip you of your crude way of thinking. This is on a par with what a parent sometimes would do in order to stop his little child from crying—giving him some yellow leaves, making believe that they are precious coins. — Wu Ching-hsiung (John C. H. Wu), The Golden Age of Zen, p. 169
Submitted November 18, 2017 at 11:23PM by Dhammakayaram http://ift.tt/2yWR6tB
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