Bill Porter on confused
Bill Porter6 quotes“When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is ‘Zen.’ Not to be confused internally is ‘meditation.’ External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by ‘Zen meditation.”
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In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.
Bill PorterBill Porter This building we’re in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can’t get out.
Bill PorterBill Porter Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don’t keep reading the book.
Bill PorterBill Porter When you’re blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you’re aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.
Bill PorterBill Porter There’s not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it’s useful to meditate and sometimes it isn’t.
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