Tung-Shan: If you look for the truth outside yourself

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If you look for the truth outside

yourself,

it gets farther and farther away.

Today, walking alone,

I meet him everywhere I step.

He is the same as me,

yet, I am not him.

Only if you understand it in this way

will you merge with the way things are.

Tung-Shan 807-869

>From The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry.

Edited by Stephen Mitchell