#9. Returning to the Original Place

My very own treasure is recovered: all those efforts spent in vain !

It would be better to have been blind, deaf, and dumb.

The mountains and water are just as they are ! So is the bird among the flowers.

Finally you realize that you have recovered your very own treasure, which you had forgotten all about. When you quietly reflect on it, you recognize that all of the exertions you put into the practice were actually unnecessary. Now when you simply open you mouth, this is a teaching of Dharma; when you walk along, this is also a teaching of Dharma. Such a person is just like this: there is nothing else to it. There is nothing that is not Dharma. In fact, it would have been better, had you been blind, deaf, and dumb. Why? Because then you would not have been dragged into doing so many useless tasks. Now "the mountains and water are just as they are." Such is the Dharma teaching of inanimate things.