Speak your own words.
We trust the word "source" indefinitely, which means that I read it in someone's writing and that if a person is a well-known intelligent person, the credibility of his words overwhelms the listener.
One of the things Zen masters say as a habit is, "Don't be fooled by my words." There is no truth in every word in the world, and if you look at its meaning, it means that it can change according to changes in the situation of the listening age.
To the extreme, it is false because it is not true, and so is all the words of Buddha. So is what he said at that time, when he heard him by his side, it was only valid then.
If you just listen to the Buddha's words, memorize them, and use them to show off with a little knowledge, they will become the devil's words, making many people blind and deaf.
We are too intimidated by the shape, and even in the bookstore, the book has a colorful front cover, a lot of thick and difficult words, and if the author is a distinguished person and there is a celebrity's recommendation on the first page, we worship it before we even read it with fear.
If you look at the journey of the life of the great intellectuals, you can see that they are eventually immersed in their thoughts and end up mentally handicapped or unhappy, but they are still living by quoting their words as if they were their own and adding their own words as if they were their own.
When I was young, I respected smart people and tried to resemble them, and suddenly I knew how foolish it was to do what I was going to do with the thought, "Are they really different from me?"
It's just one person's idea, and I've never seen it before, and I'm blindly following it, not even 500, or 1,000 years ago, because it's been left in a book, just because it's passed down to this day.
Even if their claims are universal truths like the universe I've never been to, I'm just a reference to their arguments by becoming a large number of members who follow the opinion of the "leading minority" of the world.
Most of us live our lives without knowledge of importance, and those who do not know the existence of heaven and God live in harmony with them.
Knowing much about the world may help you find the truth, but if it hinders you, it is enough to live with your knowledge so far.
When I was young, I often joked to my friends, "If you eat a lot, it's cheaper, if you eat less, it's cheaper."
Of course, it depends on the direction of personal life, but knowing a lot makes you more to worry about, so you're just as tired as that, and knowing less, you're relatively less tired relatively less.
When I grew up, I found out later, but Zen compares other people's words to other people's excreted shit.
Why are you taking care of other people's things when mine is enough?
Only Sakyamuni Buddha, whom we know well, is symbolically exposed as a model of enlightenment, so Dharma has been a hint of enlightenment for 2,500 years.
The side effects of the majority of people, not his pointing truth, but his own sublime self, are serious, only mistaking his enlightenment for truth.
Buddha said he never left a single Buddhist scripture on his own, and when he died, and he said "I never talking about Dharma even one word".
The Buddhist scriptures, which we know now, were created long after the death of the Buddha, when the number of enlightened disciples gradually decreased and the order of Buddhism began to deteriorate.
After that, Dharma, the 28th Master from Sakyamuni and the founder of Zen, burned down both Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist statues and conveyed the Buddha's true feelings.
