Author: David Schwarm
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4. A Beardless Foreigner
Wakun complained when he saw a picture of the bearded Bodhidharma: `Why hasn’t that fellow a beard?’ Mumon’s comment: If you want to study Zen, you must it with your heart. When you attain realization, it must be true realization. You yourself must have the face of the great Bodhidharma to see him. Just once…
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St. Theognostus
I shall tell you something strange, but do not be surprised by it. Should you fail to attain dispassion because of the predispositions dominating you, but at the time of your death be in the depths of humility, you will be exalted above the clouds no less than the man who is dispassionate.
