Before Enlightenment, I Used To Be Depressed;

If You Don't Look At Things Through Your Concepts, You'll Never Be Bored. Every Single Thing Is Unique.

"my Former Master Taught Me To Accept Birth And Death." "then What Have You Come To Me For?" Asked The Master. "to Learn To Accept What Lies In Between."

A Disciple Was One Day Recalling How Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed Were Branded As Rebels And Heretics By Their Contemporaries. Said The Master, Nobody Can Be Said To Have Attained The Pinnacle Of Truth Until A Thousand Sincere People Have Denounced Him For Blasphemy .

Drop Your False Ideas. See Through People. If You See Through Yourself, You Will See Through Everyone. Then You Will Love Them. Otherwise You Spend The Whole Time Grappling With Your Wrong Notions Of Them, With Your Illusions That Are Constantly Crashing Against Reality.

Everybody Was Talking About The Religious Man Who Committed Suicide. While No One In The Monastery Approved Of The Man's Action, Some Say They Admired His Faith. Faith?" Said The Master. He Had The Courage Of His Convictions, Didn't He?" That Was Fanaticism, Not Faith. Faith Demands A Greater Courage Still: To Reexamine One's Convictions And Reject Them If They Do Not Fit The Facts.