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The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon itself. Original Buddhism has died with the people who practiced it. We will never have the original Buddhism again. Only a mummified finger pointing in a general direction which we call original buddhism.

Buddhism has died many times and been reborn many more times. Just as it has in you. Be careful clinging to signs. Be careful of certainty. We mummify ourselves in many ways other than the literal.