' The Real Self '...

If you want to be free, get to know your real self.

It has no form, no appearance, no root,

No basis, no abode, but is lively and buoyant.

It responds with versatile facility, but its function
Cannot be located;

when you look for it you become
Further from it.

When you seek it
You turn away from it all the more.



--Rinzai (d.867?)