All intellectual endeavour is like trying to count every single grain of sand in this world one by one.

You people seek to measure all within the void, foot by foot and inch by inch, I repeat to you that all phenomena are devoid of distinctions of form. Intrinsically they belong to that pefect tranquillity which lies beyond the transitory sphere of form-producing activities, so all of them are co-existent with space and one with reality. Since no bodies possess real form, we speak of phenomena as void; and, since Mind is formless, we speak of the nature of all things as void. Both are formless and both are termed void. Moreover, none of the numerous doctrines has any existence outside your original Mind. All this talk of Bodhi, Nirvana, the Absolute, the Buddha-Nature, Mahayana, Theravada, Bodhisattvas and so on is like taking autumn leaves for gold. To use the symbol of the closed fist: when it is opened, all beings-both gods and men-will perceive there is not a single thing inside. Therefore is it witten: There's never been a single thing; Then where's defiling dust to cling? — Huang Po

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Yes, my advice is to give up all indulgence in conceptual thought and intellectual processes. — Huang Po

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The Buddhas, on manifesting themselves in the world, seized dung-shovels to rid themselves of all such rubbish as books containing metaphysics and sophistry — Huang Po

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Stay away from math.

Submitted June 02, 2020 at 09:19PM by Kyuu-bi https://ift.tt/3gLcsQT