When you look closely, 
you see that people of the present 
are none other than people of old, 
and the functions of the present 
are none other than the functions of the past; 
even going through a thousand changes 
and myriad transformations, 
here it is just necessary 
for you to recognize it 
first hand before you can attain it.

Foyan Qingyuan (1067 CE-1120 CE), Foyan Qingyuan was an important master of Chan Buddhism in the Yangqi branch of the Linji School. He was a student of Wuzu Fayan (d. 1104), and was known as one of the "three Buddhas of East Mountain" (the mountain whose famous former resident had been the 5th Chan patriarch Hongren), along with his dharma brothers, Yuanwu Keqin and Taiping Huiqin (1059–1117).