The same to you Bill as I return the finger to Gutei.
--- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> Like Gutei's Finger...
>
> --- In [email protected], "bobthomas564" <bobthomas564@> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 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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