“The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.” IfsMindRealWisdomBodyFormCausesUnderstandingSpaceBreakEffectsOriginalsBonesYour BodyCharacteristicsAtomsNihilist Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.” IfsKnowsGivingBodyPastScienceAsksAbilityKnowledgeToolsAccountsOriginalsCumulative Author:C.P. Snow
“Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.” MindSelfBodyLightFacesTurnsStepsOriginalsManifestInwardMind And Body Author:Dogen
“When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.” BodyResultsEffortSpecialElementsResearchDiscoveryClaimsOriginalsGenuineTendenciesCognitive Book:What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies Source: What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies