GoT and Buddhism

When you try to understand everything,
you will not understand anything.
The best way is to understand yourself,
and then you will understand everything.

~ Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi

So I came across this quote this week after posting last week verse 67 of the Gospel of Thomas. Coincidence? I think not! I wonder how many of Jesus' sayings that are recorded in the Gospel of Thomas have similar parallels to the teachings of the great Zen patriarchs (including Buddha himself)? I just might have to get this book and find out for myself.