If you forget your feelings
about things of the world,
they become enlightening teachings.
If you get emotional about enlightening teaching,
it becomes a worldly thing.
Musō Soseki (1275 CE-1351 CE), Musō Soseki was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer. The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as Musō Kokushi (夢窓国師) ("national Zen teacher"), an honorific conferred on him by Emperor Go-Daigo.