Master Jin-gak said, “Time flows like water, and worrisome worldly affairs are so badly entangled that they cannot be disentangled. The smokeless fire of the heart keeps burning day by day. How can you escape from being burnt by the flames?”
Student: “How can we disentangle the entangled worldly affairs?”
Master: “Brush away dust from them and look carefully at them.”
Commentary:
Trying to untangle tangled turtle-hair makes it more entangled.
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