Creating A Barrier

The more you want benefits from Ch'an, the further you will be from obtaining them. In fact, you will only increase your vexations. You may be a highly intelligent person who works very hard and has good karmic roots. But if you are anxious to get enlightened, you have created a barrier between yourself and enlightenment.

---Master Sheng Yen---


Note: Ch'an is the Chinese term the Japanese translate as Zen.