All things - good or bad, beautiful or ugly - should be treated as void. Even in time of disputes and quarrels we should treat our intimates and our enemies alike and never think of retaliation. In the exercise of our thinking faculty, let the past be dead. If we allow our thoughts, past, present, and future, to link up in a series, we put ourselves under restraint. On the other hand, if we never let our mind attach to anything, we shall gain emancipation.
Huineng. Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism.
Source.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Platform_Sutra
T. O. M's comment.
Huineng's teachings are something I can relate to, it's direct, no nonsense wisdom..
I've taken the sandals off my head, put them back on my feet where they are more useful and now I'm no longer getting strange looks from passers by.
Peace.
Submitted September 19, 2020 at 12:01PM by transmission_of_mind https://ift.tt/3iO4B5u
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