A monk came before his master and asked, “What is the way?”
“It is right before your eyes,” the master replied.
The monk said, “Why do I not see it for myself?”
“Because you are thinking yourself.”
“What about you, master? Do you see it?”
The master replied, “As long as you see double, saying ‘I don’t’ and ‘you do,’ your eyes are clouded.”
“When there is neither ‘I’ nor ‘you’, can one see it?”
“When there is neither ‘I’ nor ‘you’, where is the one that wants to see it?”
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So be the way.
Yes, so briefly glimpsed, then back into the fray of I and thou.
Delightful final question!