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I have several Buddha images around the house.  I like the Buddha.  Looking at his face brings reminds me to be still within.  Red Pine, one of my favorite authors/translators, gives life to Bodhidharma’s description of a Buddha in the Bloodstream Sermon:

A Buddha doesn’t observe precepts. A Buddha doesn’t do good or evil. A Buddha isn’t energetic or lazy. A Buddha is someone who does nothing, someone who can’t even focus his mind on a Buddha. A Buddha isn’t a Buddha. Don’t think about Buddhas. If you don’t see what I’m talking about, you’ll ever know your own mind.

Yep.

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