Bodhidharma: But people of no understanding don't believe their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage.

Someone who understands the teaching of sages is a sage. Someone who understands the teaching of mortals is a mortal. A mortal who can give up the teaching of mortals and follow the teaching of sages becomes a sage. But the fools of this world prefer to look for a sage away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind is the sage. The sutras say, "Among men of no understanding, don't preach this sutra. And the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

Bodhidharma [died 532], excerpt from The Wake-Up Sermon, translated by Red Pine

Submitted October 21, 2019 at 02:11AM by WanderingRoninXIII https://ift.tt/31vvLEZ