How does one study Ch’an?

One has to awaken suddenly and directly have no mind; only then can you be joyful and at peace. If you do not awaken, then all you will be doing is mouthing a few phrases about emptiness, nonbeing, and quoting a few of the ancients talking about nonbeing.

In a mistaken fashion on the basis of this you will say: “I have obtained rest.” I want to ask you, can you succeed in resting or not? That is using the mind to make the mind not exist.

If you use the mind to make the mind not exist, the mind exists all the more. How can you then make it not exist? The ancient sages scoffed at this as the heresy of falling into emptiness.