“As you get out of your mind you suddenly become aware of your own limitless, unbounded, oceanic consciousness. No word is capable to describe it. You can experience it, but you cannot explain it. You can have it, but you cannot say anything about it. Only your silence may give a little indication of the tremendous vastness of existence, of life, of consciousness.

“Enlightenment is only an effort to make you aware of your infinity, of your eternity. You are the whole past. You are the whole present. You are the whole future. The moment one comes to know, it is the most blessed moment. You have fulfilled your destiny, you have come home; now there is nothing else beyond it. This is the only richness, this is the only victory. All else is mundane, only this experience is the sacred.

“And to be filled with this sacredness, nothing much is needed on your part – just a silent mind, a peaceful heart, a wordless, thoughtless serenity. Suddenly you are no longer the dewdrop; instantly you have become the ocean itself. To know the ocean there is only one way – to become it.

“Ta Hui is coming to the close of his journey. He started as an intellectual, but he was a fortunate intellectual; he did not get lost in words and theories and arguments. He managed to get beyond the mind, and now he is making statements which belong to the beyond, which are not arguments but only hints for those who are in search.

“The whole journey of Ta Hui is significant because it is the journey of everyone who moves from ignorance to innocence, from the mind to mindlessness, from darkness to ultimate light. It is your journey. Going with Ta Hui, step by step, will help you immensely, because there is no other book that I have come across which describes the whole transformation. All other books come after enlightenment. People have spoken only when they have known. This is a special case. We start with a teacher and we end up with a great master.”