There are examples of how perfectly realized people never uttered a single word or half a phrase without purpose.
Whenever they tried to help others, they never gave random instructions, and they did not approve people arbitrarily.
Nowadays there are teachers all over who sometimes speak correctly and sometimes speak without a grasp.
Why? Because they have not yet attained perfect realization.
Sometimes they approve people and say they are right, but then sometimes they say they are not right;
how is it possible to clarify “from birth to death, it’s just this person” in such a manner?
~ Foyan (1067-1120)
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 (1067-1120)