Daily Zen Quote - October 3, 2013

Master Tokusan spent years devoted to study of the sutras, especially The Diamond Sutra. But once he reached Zen insight under Master Ryutan, he took all of his treasured copies of The Diamond Sutra and its many commentaries, and put them in fire. "However deep your knowledge of profound mysteries," he said, "it is but a piece of hair placed in the vastness of space. However important your experience in worldly things, it is but a drop of water thrown into an abysmal ravine."

~Zen Story