This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
There are things that cannot be communicated by reading alone.
Zen is said to be based on a "special transmission outside scriptures"
I suspect that actually looking at someone (preferably while you're together in the same room) lets you understand things better.
yeah a lot of Buddhist proverbs and koans are about getting us to think LESS
The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.
Spiritual practices are experiential; you aren't meant to just hear them, you are meant to practice them and be enlightened through lived understanding.
If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, the meal was cooked a long time ago.
Anon looks at the finger smh