There are as many quotes here as ideas. Should we have a sticky of favourite
quotes?
Here is a couple I just came across which ring for me:
"The one word which I dislike to hear is `Buddha.'" For Chao-chou, as for
Ma-tsu and Nan-ch'üan, Tao or Reality is neither mind, nor Buddha, nor a thing.
It transcends the universe of time and space, yet it pervades all things.
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if you repeat the same answer to the same question, it becomes a dead formula,
mechanically remembered and perfunctorily delivered. Even if the answer was
original with you and had a wiggle of life in the beginning, your systematic
repetition of it is liable to take all life out of it until it becomes as dead
and dry as a sucked lemon. In this way, you easily degenerate from a speaker
into a parrot.
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