Joshu asked Nansen: `What is the path?’
Nansen said: `Everyday life is the path.’
Joshu asked: `Can it be studied?’
Nansen said: `If you try to study, you will be far away from it.’
Joshu asked: `If I do not study, how can I know it is the path?’
Nansen said: `The path does not belong to the perception world,
Nansen said: `Everyday life is the path.’
Joshu asked: `Can it be studied?’
Nansen said: `If you try to study, you will be far away from it.’
Joshu asked: `If I do not study, how can I know it is the path?’
Nansen said: `The path does not belong to the perception world,
neither does it belong to the non-perception world.
Cognition is a
delusion and non-cognition is senseless.
If you want to reach the true
path beyond doubt,
place yourself in the same freedom as sky.
You name
it neither good nor not-good.’
At these words Joshu was enlightened.
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