...the nun Wu-chin-ts'ang, had left home to go to the Shan-Chien Temple to devote herself to the recitation of the Nirvana Sutra. Hui-neng hears her, and the next morning asks her to recite it to him explaining that he is unable to read.
"If you are illiterate, how can you understand its meaning?" he is asked.
Hui-neng's reply is: "What has the principle of the Buddha nature to do with understanding written words? hat's so strange about not knowing written words?"
---Philip B. Yampolsky---
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