Honest Doubt
“There is more faith in an honest doubt,
Believe me,
Than in half the creeds.”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
“If one sees me in forms,
If one seeks me in sounds,
He practices a misleading way.
He cannot see the essence of creeds:
All conditioned creeds
are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows,
like dew drops and a lightning flash:
contemplate them thus.”
Creeds and doctrines are like a raft
to carry one to the other shore,
and then to relinquish.
Neither cling to the raft forever,
or reject it when drowning.
Even better,
become a strong swimmer.
- Source: The Diamond Sutra
Paraphrased by Mike Garofalo
Green Way Wisdom - Zen Buddhist Poetry
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October 19, 2005 @ 6:21 am
[…] For a number of links to the Diamond Sutra, go to my Valley Spirit Journal entry for today, or my previous entry titled ‘Honest Doubt.” For an extensive collection of Zen Poetry, and a detailed bibliography and links on the subject, pleased go to my webpages on Zen Poetry […]