Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs

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.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

Han-shan.

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

These are called the guardians of Truth, and their names are Paradox and Confusion.