Peeter Laurits 1962 All Sages Are Inclined. 2024

All sages are inclined to study how to reach the root by clipping off the entangled vines, what does not happen is the study of clipping entangled vines with entangled vines — they do not know how to entangle vines with entangled vines. Needless to say, they have no clue of how to prolong the entangled vines through entangled vines. Therefore, what is said is nothing but lines from what remains beyond — the teacher and the student share them in the same way.

What is heard is nothing but lines from what remains beyond — the teacher and the student share them in the same way. At the bottom of what the teacher and the student share is the entanglement of the Buddhas and predecessors.

Another thing to be studied: because the seeds of the entangled vines have the power to leave behind the body, there are branches and leaves, blossoms and fruits embedded in those entangled vines, and as they do or do not branch out further, Buddhas and predecessors become immanent, their challenge becomes immanent.

— Entangled vines (Kattō)