“Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.” ThinkingKnowsMindLooksRealityLyingAwarenessWalkingSittingStandingEmptyOneselfLiberationDelusionLying Down Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.” MadeLyingReligionSocialChurchSinChristianityTasksEmptyLipsLawyerCrueltyMade ItHypocrisySinnerAvariceCloaksRiteMisersImmunityDeferenceLip Service Book:Views and Opinions Source: Views and Opinions
“The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.” LyingFaithEmptyUnbeliefFruitfulness Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe