Those who have spent ten or twenty years brushing aside the weeds looking for the way and yet have not see the buddha nature often say they are trapped by oblivion and excitement. What they don't realize is that the substance of this very oblivion and excitement is itself buddha nature. ~ Kao-feng
. . . Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. ~ Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -- The Dalai Lama