To you who thinks Buddhism is the greatest idea in human history

Religion isn’t an idea. It’s practice.

Don’t get lost in thoughts about the buddha-dharma.

Be careful that you don’t handle the buddha-dharma like some canned good which has nothing to do with reality.

Your explanations and your anecdotes are foolish like everything that comes out of your mouth. The expression on your face has already said how it really is.

You can express reality completely freely with words. Yet these words are not in themselves reality. If reality were in the words themselves, we would burn our tongue whenever we said “fire”. And whenever we talked about wine, we would get drunk. In reality, it isn’t so easy.

What isn’t real is useless, no matter what we call it. And no matter how we use theories, we don’t make any progress through them. Words are nothing more than words.

http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/kodo-sawaki-to-you.shtml

 

word up :cheers:

 

Thank you for that.

 

lotta words

 

what about Buddha cat? people cannot help but indulge in his greatness!

 

If you met the buddha cat walking down the road kill it