If, in searching
for enlightenment you
come across a master
and you ask him in which
of the four cardinal directions
you should seek your goal
he will tell you to look
north, east, south
and west at once.
If you say you cannot
he will tell you to look
in all four direction which
you can do from where
you are then standing.

A reflection on Case 97 of Dogen’s Shobogenzo Koans (True Dharma Eye)