Dharma Discourse: Where Is the Barrier by Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Sensei:
"..... Yuanwu says, "Since people of these times do not understand, they frantically search outside themselves." He's speaking from more than a thousand years ago, and so we see that in this regard, not much has changed. In fact, I wonder if the frantic pace of our searching beyond ourselves hasn't, in fact, become much greater. We're so inundated with images from movies and advertising that show us a happiness, a love, a life that appears to be so much more than our own. Everywhere we turn—television, radio, the internet— we encounter pundits, experts and other confident people who seem to know so much and express their great certainty about all kinds of things."
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