“ The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge. Thomas Cleary
“ What worlds are there herein? I’ll tell you. In these seas of fragrant waters, numerous as atoms in unspeakably many buddha-fields, rest an equal number of world systems. Each world system also contai… Thomas Cleary
“ The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections. Thomas Cleary
“ When flowing water...meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it...… Thomas Cleary
