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The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan) QUOTES

The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan) QUOTES

1 " This very mind is Buddha.’” Indeed. Don’t you know that the very word “Buddha,” the very words “Jesus,” “enlightenment,” “salvation,” “heaven,” “Lotus Land,” and the rest of them, all self-destruct? There are three phases in the lives of such concepts. First, they are meaningful; next they become brittle; and finally they break into pieces and disappear. That is because from the beginning they have been without essence. Use them, but don’t be used by them. "

― Robert Aitken , The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan)