On the Zafu … and perhaps there come sensations of timelessness …the hard borders between self and world may soften and fade … you feel wonderfully at home in life … desire, anger, jealousy, greed all release their hold …

And just then, your rational mind seeks to put words to it, to intellectually analyze the experience … “Yeah, but … just why do I feel this way?”

Even if rational analysis is possible (it usually is, for ours is not an irrational philosophy … even if its logic is a different logic from the typical Western kind) … the experience will have suddenly changed, or been subtly lost.

Yueni subekaraku gon o tazune go o ou no gegyô o kyûsubeshi.

So cease the intellectual work of studying sayings and chasing words. [Nishijima]

Therefore, put aside the intellectual practice of investigating words and chasing phrases, [SZTP]