If someone with false thoughts dismisses hard work, seeks leisure day in and day out and does not consider practice important, he will be confused until the Year of the Donkey. Anyone who thinks that laziness and false thoughts are enjoyable is not misleading himself in this life alone; even at the end of many kalpas he might still be in confusion.
From Pure Land of the Patriarchs by Zen Master Han Shan.
I’ve been reading my Pure Land books again, which you may obtain for free at www.budaedu.org. They’re full of practical wisdom and inspiration. And when I write about Pure Land, it’s the Chinese variety which stresses practice. I don’t feel much affinity with the Jodu Shinshu version. I’m a lazy person, and without some kind of impetus to do something, I won’t purify this chaotic, defiled mind.
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