❝ if you want to live or die, to go or stray as freely as taking off or putting on your clothes, then you should know that each person listening to my talk is without form or characteristics, without root or trunk, and has no dwelling place, yet is as lively as a fish splashing in the water. You are responding to all that happens naturally, yet there is no place where these responses happen. Therefore the more you search, the more this person eludes you, and the more you hunt, the farther away this person will be. This is what I call the mystery
-Lin-chi