"If you now set about using your minds to seek Mind listening to the teaching of others, and hoping to reach the goal through mere learning, when will you ever succeed? Some of the ancients had sharp minds; they no sooner heard the Doctrine proclaimed than they hastened to discard all learning. So they were called 'Sages who, abandoning learning, have come to rest in spontaneity'. In these days people only seek to stuff themselves with knowledge and deductions, seeking everywhere for book-knowledge and calling this Dharma-practice'. They do not know that so much knowledge and deduction have just the contrary effect of piling up obstacles. Merely acquiring a lot of knowledge makes you like a child who gives himself indigestion by gobbling too much curds. Those who study the Way according to the Three Vehicles are all like this. All you can call them is people who suffer from indigestion. "
-Huang Po Blofeld translation
Jungle_Toad's commentary:
I feel like this passage gives me more respect for u/AssholeBuddha 's scatalogical humor. He's just voiding himself to enlightenment. 💩
Little Ms. Muffett sat on her tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
As her knowledge grew wider
Indigestion built up inside her
Until AssholeBuddha taught her to flush it away
Submitted January 04, 2020 at 04:36AM by jungle_toad https://ift.tt/2ZLUDsQ
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