Connected to All
The Buddha’s philosophy says that when you realize that there is a part of you that’s connected to all that exists, you will be loving, you will be compassionate, and you will actually follow what Christ says on the Sermon on the Mount.
— Deepak Chopra [via]
A philosopher once visited Buddha and asked him: “Without words, without the wordless, will you tell me the truth?”
Buddha kept silence.
After a while the philosopher rose up gently, made a solemn bow and thanked Buddha saying: “With your loving kindness, I have cleared away all my delusions and entered the true path.”
When the philosopher had left, Ananda, a senior disciple of Buddha, inquired: “O, Blessed one, what hath this philosopher attained?”
Buddha replied: “A good horse runs even at the shadow of the whip!”
— Author unknown (Paul Reps, ed., Zen Flesh, Zen Bones) [via]