One Buddhist master read a beautiful text to his students that touched everyone. The disciples immediately asked:
- Who wrote it?
- If I say that this is Buddha, you will revere the text, lay flowers on it every morning and bow to it. If I say that the patriarch wrote this text, you will have great respect, but you will not bow to it as much as you would to the Buddha's text. If I say that the author was a monk, you might be confused. And if you find out that the text was written by our cook, you’ll just laugh,” the teacher replied.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru