January 29^th, 2016

Followers of the Way, true sincerity is extremely difficult to attain, and the Buddha-dharma is deep and mysterious, yet a goodly measure of understanding can be acquired. I explain it exhaustively all day long, but you students give not the slightest heed. Though a thousand times or ten thousand times, you tread it under foot, you are still in utter darkness. It is without a vestige of form, yet distinct in its solitary shining.