Q. There is a saying that remedies are one with poison. How can we distinguish between them? – Zen Fools

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A. It’s true that drugs is one with poison, that hell is one with the Pure land, and that Mara is one with the Buddha. In truth, all the things is impartial; neither drugs nor poison, neither hell nor the Pure land, and neither Mara nor the Buddha. Whether or not one thing is a treatment, or poison is determined by how we see it.

The important thing level is that what we will see Oneness, the true-Self via, is drugs and what allures us to see many, that’s, issues, is poison.

When seeing, or listening to a factor, it doesn’t matter what it’s, it’s a treatment if we see Oneness, the true-Self via it. It’s poison if it prevents us from seeing the true-Self.

So, we must always attempt to see and listen to issues with out attaching any phrases, or any definition to them resembling a hen, a flower, an aeroplane and so forth, as a result of attaching names is dividing Oneness into many. For this reason even the Sutras turn out to be Mara’s discuss once we are deluded by the phrases therein, and even the sound of a canine’s barking is an efficient drugs if we hear it as it’s with out attaching any names to it.

©Boo Ahm

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