Bodhi originally has no tree, the bright mirror also not a stand.
There was not a single thing to begin with, where could the dust alight?
This verse on Bodhi, to a certain extent, greatly resembles the previously mentioned Formless Gatha. Yet, its implied meaning is entirely different.
If it is said that the Formless Gatha delves deeply into the essence of a monk's cultivation of Buddhism, then this Bodhi Verse has already completed its transformation and sublimation at that level.
As soon as the Bodhi Verse was recited, the Dharma assembly by the water and land fell into silence. Those mere twenty words immersed countless monks.
In a faint sense, as if they grasped something; but upon closer examination, they couldn't discern what it was they realized. This feeling was profound and yet more profound.
