선화상인 "Words of Wisdom" 중

When you are confused,

ten thousand books are too few.

When you are enlightened,

one word is too much.

When you are confused, you read: one book is not suf fi cient; two

books, still not enough; three books, not satisfactory. You read a

thousand books, ten thousand books and still it’s not enough.

After you have become enlightened, one word is more than

enough. When you awaken you’ll fi nd that the en tire Treasury

of Sutras is within your own self-nature. There isn’t anything

outside. When you realize that, one word is too much. It’s laboring

the point.