Haven’t you seen the saying of master Yantou that whenever you have an object of esteem, it becomes a nest? You people who have spent your whole lives in monasteries investigating this matter without attainment are not worth talking about. A lot of those with white hair and yellow teeth still sit in a nest, unable to get out all their lives, totally unaware of their error. Those who get a taste for the sayings of people of old make extraordinary sayings and wonderful statements into a nest. Those who get a taste for the terminology and interpretation of scriptural teachings make scriptural teachings into a nest. Those who get a taste for the cases of people of old make the ancients’ dialogues, substitute sayings, alternative sayings, words of praise and words of censure into nests. Those who get a taste for the nature of mind make ‘the triple world is only thought, myriad things are only perceptions’ into a nest. Those who get a taste for a state of quiescent silence without words or speech make a nest of closing the eyes and sitting in a ghost cave in a mountain of darkness on the other side of the prehistoric Buddhas. Those who get a taste for the goings on of daily activities make a nest of raising their eyebrows, blinking their eyes, and alerting attention. Those who get a taste for saying it is not in speech, not in sense or consciousness, not in activity, mistakenly taking conditioned consciousness for Buddha-nature, make the flash of sparks or lightning into a nest.