when you search into it

binsar bakkara

 

Whether you are going

or staying or sitting or lying down,

the whole world is your own self.  You must find

out whether the mountains, rivers, grass,

and forests exist in your own mind

or exist outside it. 

 

Analyze the ten thousand things,

dissect them minutely, and when you take this

to the limit  you will come to the limitless, when you search

into it you come to the end of search, where thinking goes

no further and distinctions vanish. When you smash

the citadel of doubt, then the Buddha

is simply yourself.

 

Daikaku

 

nothing to be born, nothing to perish

wim wenders

 

All Buddhas preach emptiness.

Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas

of the students. If a student even clings to an idea of emptiness,

he betrays all Buddhas. One clings to life although there is nothing to be

called life; another clings to death although there is nothing to be

called death. In reality there is nothing to be born,

consequently, there is nothing

to perish.

 

Bodhidharma