This quote is from the book THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ZEN:
Not Far From Buddhahood
A university student while visiting Gasan asked him: "Have you even read the
Christian Bible?"
"No, read it to me," said Gasan.
The student opened the Bible and read from St. Matthew: "And why take ye
thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil
not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these...Take therefore no thought for the
morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself."
Gasan said: "Whoever uttered those words I consider and enlightened man."
The student continued reading: "Ask and it shall be given you, seek and ye
shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh
receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh, is shall be
opened."
Gasan remarked: "That is excellent. Whoever said that is not far from
Buddhahood."
...Bill!
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