Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org); Ven. Sujato; Dhr. Seven, Ellie Askew (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Mother, who is that man? - Rahula, that is your father, who is not the Buddha. |
If you want to find Dharma, it has nothing to do with forests or mountains or caves. It’s only in the heart. It has its own language of experience.
There is a great difference between concepts and direct experience. With a glass of hot water, whoever puts his or her finger into it will have the same experience — "hot" — which may be called by many terms in different languages.
Similarly, whoever looks deeply into the heart will have the same experience, no matter what a person's nationality, culture, or language may be.
If in your heart you come to that taste of Truth, of Dharma, then you become like one big family — like mother and father, sisters and brothers — because you’ve tasted that essence of the heart, which is the same for all.
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