Do you see this mountain?

Every body has a huge mountain
whose size is unknowable.
Living dependent on and in it,
he has never left it.

Do you see the mountain now?

This mountain
cannot be seen with eyes.
Why?
It's because an eye is not an eye
and a mountain is not a mountain.

If I say an eye is a mountain and a mountain is an eye,
who could believe it?

Written by
MASTER SUBUL SUNIM
Director of Anguk Zen Center
and Dongguk University's
International Seon Center
Translated by Boo Ahm
(Song Soo-kyong)