宏智禪師廣錄 1.2

1.2

I am stubborn, foolish, clumsy, and negligent, of no practical use. Only toward the flavors of the world am I bland and indifferent, regarding self and other lightly, as if one who could study Buddhism. For this reason, from youth I have enjoyed associating with monks. When occasionally meeting a person of the Way in their authentic nature, even before speaking our minds were already close, almost like the dark accord between lodestone and iron, something that cannot be closely questioned. Otherwise, though associating day after day, they are as distant as ever. Now,