宗鏡錄 43.8

43.8

Question: Why not rely on one's own Chan tradition and tread the correct path of the profound study: simply being unattached in all places, freely roaming and giving oneself over to conditions, with non-action and non-cultivation, naturally tallying with the Way? Why must one constrain the mind and narrow the resolve, subservient to meanings and lost in texts? This may be called abandoning stillness to seek clamor, disliking identity and liking difference.