‘Followers of the Way, if you want to become Buddha, do not follow the ten thousand things. When the heart arises the ten thousand things arise too. When the heart is stilled, the manifold things cease. And when the heart does not rise, the ten thousand things are without blame. In the world and beyond the world, neither Buddha nor Dharma manifest themselves nor do they disappear. Though things exist they are only as names and words, sentences and catch phrases to attract little children; or expedient remedies for treating diseases, superficially revealed as names and phrases.’

The Zen Teaching of Rinzai tr. Irmgard Scholegl

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In this podcast:

•   How the heart and ‘things’ arise in a co-dependent way.

•   The heart as the seat of consciousness the one which knows.

•   How the teachings themselves are skilful means and not to be grasped, not even Buddha!