“ Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately. ”
If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
~ Dōgen
Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm,Without looking for the traces I may have left;A cuckoo's song beckons me to return home;Hearing this, I tilt my head to seeWho has told me to turn back;But do not ask me where I am going,As I travel in this limitless world,Where every step I take is my home.
To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.
Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.
