You take what you get by question and study to be knowledge and understanding, but I can’t go to the hell for liars, where tongues are pulled out—if anyone has anything at all to teach you, or says there is the Buddha, there is the doctrine, there is the world to escape, they are all foxy charmers.
Do you want to know?
It’s just a void, with nothing to attain, pure and clear everywhere, radiant with light, thoroughly translucent inside and out.
There is no affectation, no dependence, nothing to dwell on. What are you concerned with? I’ll just be an old beggar all my life, until the day I die. Though I live in the world, I’m not affected by it—where would I want to escape from? Even if there were some place to go, that too would be a cage, where bedevilment can get at you. Don’t belabor your body and mind, for there is nothing to attain. All that is necessary is to avoid belaboring sound and form at all times...
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ewk note: People from /r/buddhism, /r/psychonauts, /r/zens, /r/meditation, /r/dogensmypilot, they wander in here trying to get some of the glamour of this place to rub off on their messianic visions, to put a shine on their priests, doctrines, bibles, and practices... but where is this glamour? Where does the shine come from?
Some old beggar?
What did you all come here to study?
Submitted December 28, 2018 at 08:58AM by ewk http://bit.ly/2Q3Cdxa
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