I just don't want [students] thinking they can get away with comparing themselves to Layman Pang or Vimalakirti after they "realized there's nuttin to realize hurr durr" and went back to eating pizza and playing videogames all day. (essentialsalts)
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If someone wants to be like Huangbo, they're going to need to go dedicate their life to living in a monastery, taking on a dharma name, making Bodhisattva vows, knowing the ins-and-outs of Buddhist dharma as to speak with knowing on Buddhist sutras. (Dillon123)
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Zen is not comfort therapy or escapism. It's not your forgiving, generous mom coming home from work with a pizza and a 2 liter bottle of mountain dew for you. Zen is your demanding military father. Zen is a mountain that you know will be challenging but possible to ascend after cold, lonely days and nights of scrambling. If your understanding of Zen is that it's easy, you're reasoning from laziness.
Submitted March 10, 2018 at 08:46PM by pohw http://ift.tt/2oZoJrt
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