When you happen upon someone who has no understanding, you must claim to know nothing. He may be delighted by his discovery of some 'way to Enlightenment'; yet if you allow yourselves to be persuaded by him, you will experience no delight at all, but suffer both sorrow and disappointment What have such thoughts as his to do with the study of Zen? Even if you do obtain from him some trifling 'method', it will only be a thought constructed dharma having nothing to do with Zen- Thus, Bodhidharma sat rapt in meditation before a wall; he did not seek to lead people into having opinions. Therefore it is witten: 'To put out of mind even the principle from which action springs is the true teaching of the Buddbas, while dualism belongs to the sphere of demons.'
Proverbs 14:7 on these bozos. I have mood swings. Without Bodhidharma they were in an even more dire situation. Atleast one understood.
Submitted June 06, 2019 at 11:23PM by Kyuu-bi http://bit.ly/2XCCps1
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