If you truly want to Awaken, as the Buddha and others have over the centuries, then stop quoting the 'patriarchs' and actually work on dissolving the Ego and thereby losing ALL attachments.
This includes losing attachments to 'scriptures' of any kind. All so-called scriptures have been modified , added to and subtracted from by men who could not understand the original message of their founders.
If you are a Buddhist and sit around arguing over quotes from those long dead, you are wasting your 'precious human life'.
Someone recently suggested that 'Oneness' was not all there was and how would I feel if he dropped a rock on my foot, along with other ridiculous suggestions followed by a Cha'an quotation.
If you dropped a rock on my unit's foot, pain would arise, but it would not be MY pain. Everything is an arising. Thoughts, feelings, sensations of all kinds are simply arisings.
You are NOT an Ego trapped inside a bag of skin.
Stop. Just stop the seemingly incessant 'thoughts'.
Cease to identify with the bag of skin, with the 'mind', with the personality, with pleasure or with pain.
There is no 'do-er'. You are doing nothing.
Essentially, 'you' are a just walking sensory organ.
Once you truly awaken, re-read some of those quotes and you will be able to tell which were written by those who had experienced the IS and those which were not. There really is a lot of crap out there.
Don't quote rubbish you don't even understand - Sit! Find the Silence. Find out WHAT it is that is looking, hearing and sensing...
