Followers of the Way, don't take the Buddha to be some ultimate goal. In my view he's more like the hole in a privy.
Followers of the Way, there is no Buddha to be gained and the Three Vehicles, the five natures, the teaching of the perfect and immediate enlightenment are all simply medicines to cure diseases of the moment. None have any true reality. Even if they had, they would still all be mere shams, placards proclaiming superficial matters, so many words lined up, pronouncements of such kind.
Followers of the Way, there are certain baldheads who turn all their efforts inward, seeking in this way to find some otherworldly truth. But they are completely mistaken! Seek the Buddha and you'll lose the Buddha. Seek the Way and you'll lose the Way. Seek the patriarchs and you'll lose the patriarchs.
Now that we've gotten all this out of the way, who's going to step forward and say something of worth?
Submitted October 23, 2019 at 12:01AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/2W2C9Cm
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