To Cultivate Nothing

Pai Chu-yi asked, "If we cultivate nothing and realize nothing, how are we different from ordinary people?"

Master K'uan answered, "Ordinary people are deluded. And followers of the Two Vehicles are attached. To be free of these two defects is true cultivation. Those who truly cultivate are not over-zealous, nor are they remiss. To be over-zealous is to approach those who are attached. To be remiss is to fall in with those who are deluded."