Ask the site of meditation
Why even numberless exercise
Would lead only to empty old age !
Polishing bricks to make mirrors,
Hoarding snow to use a foodstuff__
How many youths are thus deceived;
A feather swallows the great ocean?
A mustard seed contains the Sumeru?
The Golden Dhuta is gently smiling.
Enlightened, one transcends the ten stages and three vehicles.
The sluggards must join the four creatures and six ways.
Who has heard below the Thoughtless Cliff,
Beneath the Shawdowless Tree,
The cuckoo's one call greeting the dawn of Spring?
--written by a monk in the book entitled, Journey to the West
