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Repost from Andrew.

 

Love to all

Harsha

 

 

andrew macnab [a.macnab]

 

Since I was quoting Dogen, the founder of Soto zen,

here's equal time for Rinzai, the founder of Rinzai zen;

 

 

"Stop thinking and trying to find the answers. And do it now!

 

Don't be deceived by others. Trust yourself. That's all that is required.

 

The scholars and sutras! I spit on them! You have only to know that wherever

you are on the road to be your own home.

 

The hope of enlightenment is like a yoke about your neck.

 

Bodhidharma and Nirvana are hitching posts for asses. Forget all this stuff.

 

Don't worry. Take things as they are. Walk when you want to walk. Sit when

you want to sit.

 

Those who strive for success are stupid.

 

Time is precious. There is no permanence in an instant.

 

You are like a man who rejects his own head to look for another.

 

The real is ready at hand and doesn't wait for an opportune time.

 

There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for

a particular ailment.

 

What is there to doubt!

 

Let go. Don't seek or run away.

 

Make no mistake, there's nothing to be found without or within. And don't

hang onto my words. Go your way in calm and with an empty mind. It is enough

to be quiet

and ordinary.

 

Be self reliant.

 

Observe in yourself what is already there.

 

Farewell"

 

 

 

andrew

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