Master Jo said, “What can be called Emptiness is not true Emptiness, and what can be called form is not true form. True form is formless, and true Emptiness is nameless. What is nameless is the father of names, and what is formless is the mother of forms, the source of all things and the beginning of Sky and Earth.”
Student: “How do you teach people about Emptiness if it is nameless?”
Master: “I just show it to them.”
Student: “How do you show it?”
Master: “What have you seen so far?”
Commentary:
Don’t try to find what is nameless by name.
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