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A renowned Zen master said that his greatest teaching was this:

Buddha is your own mind.

So impressed by how profound this idea was, one monk decided to leave the monastery and retreat to the wilderness to meditate on this insight. There he spent 20 years as a hermit probing the great teaching.

One day he met another monk who was traveling through the forest. Quickly the hermit monk learned that the traveler also had studied under the same Zen master. "Please, tell me what you know of the master's greatest teaching." The traveler's eyes lit up, "Ah, the master has been very clear about this." His greatest teaching is this:

Buddha is not your own mind.

Knowledge is not static; your site should not be either.

Return regularly to revise. Repeat your research to learn what has changed and what has not. Digest again.

After all, one cannot hold onto knowledge—it is not a thing to be held. It is, rather, a process and as such it does not end. Nor should your site. The site that is well-maintained in design and content is the site that visitors trust. It is a site of value, with virtue.

Let this be your site.