[ I don't know how to read ]

A man went to one eye specialist and asked him, "Check my eyes. Do you think I will be able to read if you prescribe glasses?"

The eye specialist said, "Of course you will be able to read."

He wrote the prescription and the glasses were made. But the man said, "By the way, I must inform you that I don't know how to read."

The specialist said, "You are strange! you should have said this before, because even with glasses, if you don't know how to read, you are not going to read."

 

[Bruce's remark:

People are carrying scriptures which describe enlightenment and God, people are worshipping statues of buddhas, Jesus and different saints, but all these are just strange blindness, strange misunderstanding. It is almost like selling eyeglasses to a world of blind people.

The great Zen Master Engo said once, "An enlightened man enjoys perfect freedom in active life. He is not bound by any rules, any scriptures, any morality, any ethos, any culture, any society. He remains true and honest to his own being. He does not care whether his action is going against society, whether his action is going against the scriptures." ]

 

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