“...he [Hung-Jen, then current Grand Master] explained the Diamond Sutra to me. When he came to the point where it says ‘You should activate your mind without dwelling on anything,’ at these words I had the overwhelming realization that all things are not apart from inherent nature. I then said to the Grand Master, ‘Who would have expected inherent nature to be intrinsically pure? Who would have expected that inherent nature is originally unborn and undying? Who would have expected that inherent nature is originally complete in itself?’...”