The Importance of Practice

Sheng-en: I was really angry. The monks gathered before the midday meal to hear the great hogan of sariot give a talk. Hogan said, one has it, the other does not. And yet they rolled up the blinds, exactly alike. Sheng-en thought of telling the grand master to go and look for himself, but of course he did not dare. In the midst of sameness, there is difference. And in the midst of difference, there is sameness. No thing exists apart from anything else. Form is only emptiness. That is not until we are empty handed.