When you ask
how you can get
from where you are
to Nirvana
a wise teacher will
tell you there is
no there.
There is only here
and this is Nirvana.
Then he will ask
you the greater question–
who are you really?
How will you answer?

A reflection on Case 31 of the Book of Equanimity (従容錄, Shōyōroku)