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All Zen Delusion Dreams Nature Of Reality Practice Seeking Truth

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“If you speak delusions, everything becomes a delusion; If you speak the truth, everything becomes the truth. Outside the truth there is no delusion, But outside delusion there is no special truth. Followers of Buddha's Way! Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusions and truth in the bottom of your own hearts.”

Truth Practice Seeking Zen Delusion

Book:One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

Source: One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

“An evening dream--everything must have been an illusion; I cannot explain clearly even one part of what I saw. Yet in the dream it seemed as if the truth were in front of my eyes. This morning, awake, is it not the same dream?”

Dreams Zen Nature Of Reality

Book:One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

Source: One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan