The path to awakening
Is impossible to map.
It is lofty but has no ‘above’;
Impossible to reach its limit.

Deep but has no ‘below’;
Impossible to measure its depth.
So large it encompasses heaven and earth,
So tiny it enters where there is no gap;

This is why we call it the path.

By Jingjue in his preface to the ‘Masters of the Lanka’
From ‘The Spirit of Zen’ by Sam Van Schaik

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