Myths to live by

Author:Joseph Campbell
Format: mobi
Tags: Social Science, myths & legends, Fiction, Religion, Body, Spirituality - General, Anthropology, Cultural, The Occult & Mythology, Folklore, Mind & Spirit, Literature: Folklore, Mythology, Criticism, Folklore & Mythology - Mythology, Anthropology - Cultural, Myths & mythology, Spirituality, General, Comparative Religion, Fairy tales, Literature - Classics, Folklore & Mythology
ISBN: 9780140194616
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1993-01-30T20:00:00+00:00

The body is the Bodhi-tree,

The mind, a mirror bright,

Take care to wipe them always clean,

Lest dust on them alight.

The idea here being that the essence of the Buddhist way is diligent purification.

The illiterate kitchen boy, however, having learned of the competition, asked a friend that night to read to him the poem inscribed there on the wall; and when he had heard, begged to have the following set beside it:

The body is no Bodhi-tree,

The mind no mirror bright,

Since nothing at the root exists,

On what should what dust alight?

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