Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs

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

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.”

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

Han-shan.