Yes, we project our reality, We are projectors...not collecters.

Date:   3/30/2006 9:18:03 AM ( 18 y ago)

HUI HAI, IN A SPEECH TO THE ASSEMBLY OF MONKS (8th century)

Friends and brothers, it's all right for you to be monks, but it is
much better to be unattached to all things. Why run around making karma to
hem you in like a criminal's chains? Trying to empty your minds,
straining to attain enlightenment, blabbering about your understanding of the
Buddha-Dharma--all this is a waste of energy. Once, the great Ma-tzu
said to me, "Your own treasure house already contains everything you
need. Why don't you use it freely, instead of chasing after something
outside yourself?" From that day on I stopped looking elsewhere.
Just make use of your own treasure house according to your needs, and
you will be happy men. There isn't a single thing that can be grasped or
rejected. When you stop thinking that things have a past or a future,
and that they come or go, then in the whole universe there won't be a
single atom that is not your own treasure.

"We are projectors not collectors"
~Lapis~

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