Life is not a manuscript, but a book that each of us writes for ourselves.

 Life is not a manuscript, but a book that each of us writes for ourselves.

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There was a young prospective religious. His assignment to the new monastery was to assist the senior monks in the manuscripts of the scriptures. The monks of the venerable monastery have been copying scriptures for centuries.


One generation copied the original sutras, the next generation copied the manuscript, and the next generation of monks copied the manuscripts of the previous generation again.


It was a wise way to preserve the originals and the manuscripts from generation to generation.


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The scriptures they copied were passed on with authority to other monasteries and became the standard of their religious life. Therefore, it was an important task for them to copy the scriptures without a single error.


The young monk, who has spent two or three months helping the copyists, tells the abbot the necessity of collation of the original, talking about the error that will be passed on to future generations when the transcription is wrong.



After a long time had passed without checking the authenticity of the manuscript due to concerns about damage to the original, the abbot heard the story of the young monk and said that it seems necessary to compare the manuscript with the original after several centuries have passed. go to storage It was a door that had never been entered in hundreds of years.


The abbot does not return even after a long time has passed.


Worried about the elderly abbot, the young monk hurried down the basement stairs and opened the door to the archives of the originals. In the dim light, the abbot was banging his head against the wall and crying.


He said, "It was to celebrate and live happily. Be single, not celibate."


Over the centuries, humans have imitated and imitated the lives of others. Religion and practice are no exception in this respect. But, could someone mistakenly copy 'joy' for 'severity' on the way, misspelling 'laughter' with 'severity', and confuse 'joy' with 'sin'? Would I have made the mistake of transcribing 'praising' to 'grave' and 'happiness' to 'possession'? So, are we also passing on the wrong manuscripts to the next generation?


The same goes for defining who you are. What if our self-views were the result of the errors of intermediate mortals? So what if that wrong definition puts us in prison rather than set us free?


We are educated to accept the justice of the world without question. But what if the definition is erroneous? Through generations of mortals, 'imperfection is a part of perfection', 'imperfection is the opposite of perfection, 'we are spiritual beings who experience human beings' and 'we are human beings of spiritual experience' ' Is there any possibility that it will be erroneously transcribed?



What is the interpretation of 'God', 'death', 'salvation', 'enlightenment', etc.?


The more sacred the original, the greater the chance of error, since no one dares to try to contrast it.


All definitions are transcribed and are of the past. It is an important truth to say that if the definition of life does not wake us up, we will fall asleep in it.


Doctrine that prevents us from living joyfully, freely, and voluntarily is likely to be erroneous. You can discover the truth at any time if you go beyond all justice and dogma into the life of the present moment without fear. It is a living scripture. Life is not a manuscript, but a book that each of us writes for ourselves. We are artists and we are art itself.

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