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Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
from Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs by Steve Hagen
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
There’s a poem by Jacque Prévert that sums up this basic confusion quite well. He wrote: I am what I am I was made like this What more do you want What do you want of me
from Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs by Steve Hagen
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
These are called the guardians of Truth, and their names are Paradox and Confusion.
from Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs by Steve Hagen
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
Philip Powis added 2mo ago
Or, as the ninth-century Chinese Zen teacher Huang Po put it, “The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.”
from Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs by Steve Hagen
Philip Powis added 2mo ago