Thought for the day

“Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.”

~ Buddha
6th century bce Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism
from The Dhammapada

Zen thought

"Before a man studies Zen, to him mountains are mountains and waters are waters;after he gets an insight into the truth of Zen through the instruction of a good master, mountains to him are not mountains and waters are not waters; but after this when he really attains to the abode of rest, mountains are once more mountains and waters are waters." (Essays in Zen Buddhism – First Series 24)