And, in a better-known passage: “You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.” This is none other than the Zen experience of satori - only the language differs a little. At the moment of satori there is an explosion, and a man has no body but the universe. “He feels his body and mind, the earth and the heavens, fuse into one pellucid whole - pure, alert, and wide-awake,” says master Po Shan: The whole earth is but one of my eyes, But a spark of my illuminating light.
