Our Beautiful Castle of Cards
Without working on emotions, spirituality is just a castle of cards.
The source of most diseases is the mind, so the mind can overcome most diseases.
— Nikola Tesla
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I beseech you, creative intellectuals the world over, look at the pursuit of knowledge like a Buddhist monk looks at the pursuit of enlightenment: the journey is the thing, the pursuit is the thing.
There is no such thing as enlightenment. There is no such thing as Absolute Truth. There is no such thing as Perfection.
As the Zen Koan states, “If you should meet Buddha on the path, kill him.” Meaning: “kill” that part of yourself that mistakenly believes it has achieved enlightenment. Put even more succinctly: kill belief itself. Everything is questionable. Certainty is an illusion.
— Gary Z McGee
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The purpose of all the wisdom teachings in Buddhism, the teachings focused on emptiness, is to loosen the heaviness, the concretizing function of our mind, so that we become light and delicate and start to feel the possibilities of movement. Then compassion flows as required, for compassion is the capacity to be with others, to reach and make a connection with them in as many ways as possible according to the situation
