A little something to tickle your reflection -- Zhaozhou asked Nanquan, "What is the Way?" Nanquan said, "The normal mind in the Way." Zhaozhou asked, "Can it be approached deliberately?" Nanquan said, "If you try to aim for it, you thereby turn away from it." Zhaozhou said, "If one does not try, how can one know it is the Way?" Nanquan said, "The Way is not in the province of knowledge, yet not in the province of unknowing. Knowledge is false consciousness, unknowing is indifference. If you really arrive at the inimitable Way, it is like space, empty and open; how can you insist on affirmation and denial?" At these words Zhaozhou was suddenly enlightened.
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