August 29th, 2024

If you are spiritually sharp,
you can open your eyes and
see as soon as you hear me
tell you about this.

Have not people of immeasurable
greatness said this truth
is not comprehensible by thought,
and that it is where
knowledge does not reach?

Were it not like this,
how could it be called
enlightened?

Nowadays, however, people
just present interpretations and views,
making up rationalizations;
they have never learned to be thus,
and have never reached this state.

Foyan (1067–1120)