“Association with good companions is a serious recommendation of the ancient sages. Students today should follow the words of the Buddhas and Patriarchs by finding a teacher to attain discernment. Otherwise, how can you call yourselves students?
If you want to clarify this matter, you must arouse wonder and look into it. If you wonder deeply about this matter, transcendental knowledge will become manifest. Why? The task of the journey just requires the sense of doubt to cease. If you do not actively wonder, how can the sense of doubt cease?”
- Foyan’s Instant Zen: Wonder
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Arges: Good companions, I’ve met many fine ones in this forum. A few I would call teachers, though they only showed me how to teach myself.
What is wonder? Is it the endless questions we ask ourselves? Or is it what we are doing when we take a good look at ourselves, and ask questions in a certain way?
Who am i? What is self? Are these questions proper ones? Do they count as wondering?
I wonder...
Submitted January 27, 2020 at 01:19PM by ArgesAwoken https://ift.tt/36pnLru
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