This Week's Quote
20. A Mother's Advice
Jiun, a Shingon master, was a well-known Sanskrit scholar of the Tokugawa era.
When he was young he used to deliver lectures to his brother students.
His mother heard about this and wrote him a letter:
"Son, I do not think you became a devotee of the Buddha because you desired to
turn unto a walking dictionary for others. There is no end to information
and commentation, glory and honor. I wish you would stop this lecture business.
Shut yourself up in a little temple in a remote part of the mountain.
Devote your time to meditation and in this way attain true realization."
From...Zen Flesh, Zen Bones...(20)...page 24.
Have you mistaken the knowledge for the realization?