<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571348" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scripture of the Zen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The universe is scripture of the Zen, <br>and while our inner feelings come and go, <br>its feelings form an archipelago<br>where on an island prison live most men.<br>The scripture, when it’s read, helps to release<br>the feelings which, confined, lead to confusion, <br>but once they’re understood help to increase<br>the sense that life is more than an illusion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The scripture of the universe does not<br>require any priests or temples, and<br>interpretation of its poetry and plot<br>is what Zen masters hope we’ll understand<br>at every moment of our lives. It changes<br>according to the moment and the season, <br>sometimes remote as Himalayan ranges, <br>sometimes approachable with rhyme and reason.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With this scripture we can reach the realm<br>where thoughts that are exposed are safely bared, <br>but not allowed by us to overwhelm<br>the universe that we have always shared<br>with all the living creatures and the plants<br>that God created long before the day<br>that He created Man, whose hierophants<br>believe that only they know how to pray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571348" data-title="Scripture of the Zen de Gershon Hepner" data-description="The universe is scripture of the Zen, /and while our inner feelings come and go, /its feelings form an archipelago/where on an island prison live most men./The scripture, when it’s read, helps to release/the feelings which, confined, lead to con..."></div> </div> </div>

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