Thursday, December 27, 2007

Today's Buddhist Thought

The purest doctrines, such as those of Ramana Maharshi, Padma
Sambhava, Huang Po and Shen Hui, just teach that it is sufficient by
analysis to comprehend that there is no entity which could have
effective volition, that an apparent act of volition when in accord
with the inevitable can only be a vain gesture and, when in discord, the fluttering of a caged bird against the bars of his cage. When he
knows that, then at last he has peace and is glad. Non-volitional
living is glad living.


'All Else is Bondage; Non-Volitional Living'
- Wei Wu Wei

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