' The Unborn Buddha-mind '...

"That which transcends both the self and the other, that's what my
teaching is about.

Let me prove this to you: While everyone is turned
this way to hear me, out back there may be sparrows chirping, human
voices calling, or the sighing of the wind.

But, without your
consciously trying to hear them, each of those sounds comes to you
clearly recognized and distinguished.

It's not you doing the hearing, so it's not a matter of the self.

But
since no one else does your hearing for you, you couldn't call it the
other!

When you listen this way with the Unborn Buddha-mind - you
transcend whatever there is."


- Bankei (Zen Sage)