{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/glg/glg19.htm","path":"bud/glg/glg19.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/glg/glg19.htm","text":"The Gateless Gate, by Ekai, called Mu-mon, tr. Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps [1934]\nJoshu asked Nansen: \"What is the path?\"\nNansen said: \"Everyday life is the path.\"\nJoshu asked: \"Can it be studied?\"\nNansen said: \"If you try to study, you will be far away from it.\"\nJoshu asked: \"If I do not study, how can I know it is the path?\"\nNansen said: \"The path does not belong to the perception world, neither does it belong to the nonperception world. Cognition is a delusion and noncognition is senseless. If you want to reach the true path beyond doubt, place yourself in the same freedom as sky. You name it neither good nor not-good.\"\nAt these words Joshu was enlightened.\nMumon's comment: Nansen could melt Joshu's frozen doubts at once when Joshu asked his questions. I doubt though if Joshu reached the point that Nansen did. He needed thirty more years of study.","title":"The Gateless Gate: 19. Everyday Life Is the Path","type":"page"}