/lit/ - Literature

>>22192254
you can possibly save a lot of time and effort by going straight to bodhidharmas bloodstream sermon.

>To find a Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha.
>If you don’t see your nature, being mindful of Buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are not equal to it.
>Being mindful of Buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good intelligence; keeping precepts results in a good rebirth in heavens, and making offerings results in future blessings — but no buddha.

>Long ago, the monk Good Star was able to recite the twelve groups of scriptures. But he didn’t escape the Wheel, because he didn’t see his nature.
>If this was the case with Good Star, then people nowadays who recite a few sutras or shastras and think it’s the Dharma are fools.
>Unless you see your own Heart, reciting so much prose is useless.

>>19425269
get up to some high-rise building, set up some high strength fishing line or something around your neck and a rope around your legs or feet, glue your hands behind your head
and jump