Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.
When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was, his answer was, __ots of space, nothing holy._ Meditation is nothing holy. Therefore there__ nothing that you think or feel that somehow gets put in the category of __in._ There__ nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of __ad._ There__ nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of __rong._ It__ all good juicy stuff__he manure of waking up, the manure of achieving enlightenment, the art of living in the present moment.
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When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was, his answer was, __ots of space, nothing holy._ Meditation is nothing holy. Therefore there__ nothing that you think or feel that somehow gets put in the category of __in._ There__ nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of __ad._ There__ nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of __rong._ It__ all good juicy stuff__he manure of waking up, the manure of achieving enlightenment, the art of living in the present moment.
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