“We have been taught to keep the commandments, and we have kept them all too well. We have enshrined them like religious relics in sealed containers on the altar. Thus, it could be said that one lives by the commandments in much the same way as many persons live by a neighbor, never learning his name, let alone having any understanding communication with him.” WayWellsPersonsHas BeensSaidNamesUnderstandingReligiousTaughtCommunicationNeighborLive ByCommandmentsAltarsRelicsContainers Book:Breaking the Ten Commandments: Discover the Deeper Meaning Source: Breaking the Ten Commandments: Discover the Deeper Meaning
“When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.” WayHas BeensTwoEarthUsedReligionMarkGrassThirtyClayBladesAltarsLumpsCultivationBlades Of Grass Author:Dogen