Posts Tagged ‘True way’

From the Zen tradition, we share a conversation between a master and a seeker.

Joshu: What is the true Way?
Nansen: Every way is the true Way.
Joshu: Can I study it?
Nansen: The more you study, the further from the Way.
Joshu: If I don’t study it, how can I know it?

Nansen: The Way does not belong to things seen: nor to things unseen.
It does not belong to things known: nor to things unknown. Do
not seek it, study it, or name it. To find yourself on it, open
yourself as wide as the sky.