The doctrine of no-mind

The nature of the Mind when understood,

No human speech can compass or disclose,

Enlightenment is naught to be attained,

And he that gains it does not say he knows.

(The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, translated by John Blofeld, Grove Press 1958)

POUR LA PETITE JEUESE

                               I became

                          the discriminating avenger

                                of those 

                              I love or hate.  

IS BODHIDARMA HUMAN?

Buddhism came to China 2,000 years ago. As early as A.D. 65, a community of Buddhist monks was reported living under royal patronage in the northern part of Kiangsu Province, not far from the birthplace of Confucius, and the first monks had probably arrived a hundred years earlier. Since then, tens of thousands of Indian and Central Asian monks have journeyed to China by land and sea, bu mong those who brought the teachings of the Buddha to China, none has had the impact comparable to that of Bodhidarma.

( ''The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma, translated by Red Pine, NORTH POINT PRESS)

CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD

''All went smoothly until I came to the religious orientations of the Vietnamese people and read that the third-largest religious movement after Roman Catholicism and Buddhism, was a denomination known as the Cao Dai. I read that this was, broadly speaking, an amalgam of Eastern and Western faiths and that one of its three major saints was the French poet-novelist-playwright Victor Hugo (1802-1885).

  The Cao Dai spirit of Victor Hugo evolved from communications originating with an entity that initially called itself Nguyet-Tam-Chon-Nhon but later stated that it was, in fact, the spirit of the famous Victor Hugo.

 One of the many messages received by the Caodaists from the alleged spirit of Victor Hugo speaks eloquently of beauty, divine peace and harmony, science and wisdom, as well as of the spirit's perception that there are... other universes than ours in the infinite.''

(from John Chambers' ''Victor Hugo's Conversations with the Spirit World'')