The Way...

"Huoan said to Minister of State Ceng Tai:

'The essential point in studying the Way is like balancing stones to weigh things:

just get them even, that is all — it won't work if one side is too heavy.

Pushing ahead and lagging behind are both the same in being one-sided.

When you realize this, you can study the Way."


Huoan
in _Zen Lessons_, 209
Translated by Thomas Cleary
NY: Barnes & Noble, 1989, p. 133