Grasp the External

What is bedevilment? Bedevilment means error. If you conceive intent to grasp the external, this is error. If you conceive intend to grasp the internal, this is error. If the mind is not aroused, then it is not agitated; if the mind is not agitated, this is correct.

-Fu Shanhui

From "The Pocket Zen Reader," edited by Thomas Cleary, 1999. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.