The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman

by Takuan Soho

It is because we do not pay attention that we pass along unknowing. Those who know completely about grasses and trees are sages. We do not understand these things because of our rough and conforming minds. Whether something is sentient or insentient is calculated roughly. There is probably nothing in existence that is not sentient. Don’t we say they are insentient because they lack the fashion of the things that are?