I would like to share with you Matthieu Ricard's thought of the Week, directly from his Newsletter - suscribe to it !
Getting butter from milk is only possible because milk already
contains cream. No one ever made butter by churning water. The
prospector looks for gold in rocks and not in wood chips. Likewise, the
quest for perfect enlightenment only makes sense because the buddha-nature
is already present in every being. Without that nature, all efforts
would be futile.
Matthieu Ricard is a Tibetan Buddhist Monk, author and Photographer born in France in 1946. After completing his doctoral thesis in Molecular Genetics in 1972, he decided to forsake
his scientific career and concentrate on the practice of Tibetan Buddhism. He has been the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama since 1989.
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