A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Today's Daily Dharma: Words Lose Their Meaning
Words Lose Their Meaning
“In
Master Linji's time [9th-century China], some Buddhist terms were used
so often they became meaningless. People chewed on terms like
'liberation' and 'enlightenment' until they lost their power. It’s no
different today.”
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