Buddhism Studies (53)

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Eight Chan Poems

(One) The three realms are not a burning house; the dusty world itself is the Pure Land. If the bodhi-mind is gained, why seek a pagoda? Only this small plot of ground can give birth to great awakening. Do not contest high and low; at…

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The Cage Effect of Ideas

Goethe called the “seeing” in discussing art the ability to “enter, comprehend fully, and penetrate.” To comprehend fully is to be unbiased; to penetrate is to be without obstruction; to enter yet be able to exit is nearly to be free of the blindness that…

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