“Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.” IfsGivingTwoLightNamesMeditationFunctionSubstanceGood FriendLamps Book:The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch Source: The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
“He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.” WayGivingShowsLightLamps Author:Quintus Ennius