The Metamorphosis of Wisdom
Wisdom is that which makes a vessel into a teacup when it is filled with tea, a sauce dish when it is filled with sauce, a rice bowl when it is filled with rice, and a medicine pot when it is filled with medicine. There is no set method in the functioning of this wisdom. It is simply that which knows how to utilize things according to the case at hand.
–Kusan Sunim, from The Way of Korean Zen (Weatherhill), trans. by Martine Batchelor
