User:Joshua Jonathan

Lewis Carroll, song by George Harrison
Hotei (Putai, Budai) - smash the Buddha in the backyard, tear down the fence! [note 1][note 2]
"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem
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Vajrapani, whose appearance as a Yaksha generates "fear in the individual to loosen up his dogmatism". The conviction of being enlightened or otherwise being above common standards is not a criterium for Wikipedia; only reliable sources are so.
The hammer Mjöllnir, the hammer of Thar. The Indian equivalent is the vajra, a symbol of insight.
Compare the "Hammer of Martin of Tours," Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Made in 13th century CE; hammer-head ca. 1,000 BCE.
Manjushri, bodhisattva of prajñā, who is said to have created the Kathmandu valley.

"[T]he shattering of the mind of samsara [...] is not necessarily bound up with zazen meditation.”[3]
No-thing, No-I.[note 3][note 4][note 5]
Hotei
Hotei
Odin
Shiva destroying ignorance and effortless knowledge.
Znameniye, "Our Lady of the Sign", depicting the conception of Christ as the timeless Logos in his human emanation. See also Buddha-nature.
Mother Mary and Jesus.
Wooden statue of Quan Âm (Avalokiteśvara, Guanyin) with 1000 eyes and 1000 hands.[note 6]
White Tara statue in a Karma Kagyu dharma centre. Tara represents compassionate action.
Padmasambhava in yab-yum, which represents the primordial union of wisdom and compassion. The male figure is usually linked to compassion and skillful means, while the female partner relates to insight. See also Dzogchen.
It's the mix of ingredients that gives the most extraordinary taste![note 7]


















  1. ^ a b The Existential Buddhist, On Hakuin, Hotei, and Mice
  2. ^ livingworkshop.net, Budai
  3. ^ Jeff Shore, What is a koan? And what do you do with it?, p.14, quoting Mujaku Dōchū
  4. ^ Reverend Eshin, Ten Oxherding Pictures
  5. ^ Gómez (1983), The direct and gradual approaches of Zen master Mahayana, pp 108–109; in Gimello and Gregory 1983 (eds) (1983), Studies in Ch’an and Hua-yen, University of Hawai‘i Press, pp 69–167; cited in Paul Williams (1994), Mahayana Buddhism, p.195-196
  6. ^ Patrick Jennings, Tsongkhapa: In Praise of Relativity; The Essence of Eloquence
  7. ^ Maha Karuna Chan (Ton Lathouwers), Sutra van Quanyin
  8. ^ Rabindranath Tagore, "Bharat Tirtha"
  9. ^ Stephen Knight, The European Scientific Journal Did Not Conclude 9/11 Was A ‘Controlled Demolition’
  10. ^ Promo-text for "The Record Of Linji: A New Translation Of The Linjilu In The Light Of Ten Japanese Zen Commentaries," by Jeffrey L. Broughton with Elise Yoko Watanabe, 臨濟義玄 Linji Yixuan (?–866), terebess
  11. ^ Barry Magrid
  12. ^ Vrij naar Bankei en Hakuin; Hakuin, Idel Talk on a Night Boat (2009), p.94
  13. ^ Buswell, Jr. (1983), The Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul, p.146
  14. ^ Felicia Dekkers (2024), De leegte als bron, nieuwwij.nl
  15. ^ Vetter, Tilmann (1988), The Ideas and Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism, BRILL
  16. ^ Williams (2000), Buddhist Thought, p.46
  17. ^ Frauwallner, E. (1973), History of Indian Philosophy, trans. V.M. Bedekar, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. Two volumes., pp.150 ff
  18. ^ Krishnamurti and Needleman, Conversations with Jacob Needleman
  19. ^ Richard Shankman
  20. ^ Garrison Keillor, Trump voters will not like what happens next, The Washington Post November 9 2016
  21. ^ a b Hakuin, Wild Ivy, tr. Norman Waddell; see Post-satori practice and Hakuin#Final awakening
  22. ^ Micahel S. Allen (2017), Greater Advaita Vedanta: The Case of Nícaldās. International Journal of Hindu Studies (2017), 21
  23. ^ diff


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