Beginners believe they must get the mind out of the busy brambles in which it is entangled, without considering the possibility of them getting out of the mind. You must see you in the mind, and the mind in you. Only then does the matter become clear. (Well, perhaps not clear, but ALMOST!)
Anyone’s body will be crushed in an avalanche, but only an ordinary man’s ideas will be damaged by being fallen on.
Things may come, and things may go,
but coming and going will be around forever.
Trying to get ahead of life will cause you to get kinda sideways to it.
“Look out!” yelled Father to son: “Here comes enlightenment! Run for your life, (such as it may be).” Later that day the father confided to his son: “I have made some very big personal plans, and they do not include me.”
You can take anything an awakened man says and reverse it, and it will still be true.
J.