"[The] words are (in the traditional Buddhist metaphor) fingers pointing toward the moon; if you watch the fingers you can't see the moon."

                             -Stephen Mitchell

Just as multiple satellites are needed

to triangulate a gps signal

side-by-side chapter-by-chapter translations

can help you understand the text's meaning.

(I've been having difficulty getting the menus to work properly in Internet Exlporer. I'll work on getting a fix for that but for now (and forever) I recommend installing firefox.

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling the potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes"

                                    -   Alan Watts