It is necessary to get to the reality and reveal to learners the thing in each one of them that is the fundamental matter of great liberation, without dependencies, without contrived activities, without concerns.— Yuanwu (Cleary and Cleary 1994, 178)
Do not regard the capacity to expound the dharma as superior, and the capacity to listen to the dharma as inferior. If those who speak are venerable, those who listen are venerable as well.— Dogen, ‘Gyobutsu Iigi’ (Tanahashi 2004, 94)
— and thanks to John Harvey (see his comment) for pointing out that Lao Tzu was there before Dogen!
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"What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man's job?
If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are."
-Lao Tsu 27, Stephen Mitchell
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John Harvey, Wizened Web Wizard Wannabe
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein
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