What Is Worse Than Belief?
Worse than belief
is wanting to believe
There are two obscurations in the mind: ignorance of our true reality, and the maintenance of that ignorance. When we stick to one side about whatever we read or hear without stopping to wonder, we become extremists. Belief is extremism, which is unreliable.
The middle way is an open door.
Extremists close that door.
Until we drop belief,
we cannot realise the truth.
BUDDHA IN THE MUD is a blog - a living book based on the Dzogchen teachings. Our teacher is life, and life is karma. We are all Buddhas in the mud of concepts. 