' Mystic Understanding '...

"Mystic understanding of truth is not perception or cognition.

That is why it is said that you arrive at the original source by stopping the mind,

so it is called the enlightened state of being as is,

the ultimately independent free individual."



Non-ch'uan (748-834)
in Teachings of Zen
Translated by Thomas Cleary
NY: Barnes & Noble, 1998, p. 21