-- No Wisdom Of True Thusness --

Provincial Governor Li Ao asked Zen master Longtan, "What is the wisdom of true thusness?"
Longtan said, "I have no wisdom of true thusness."
The governor said, "I am fortunate to have met you, Master."
Longtan said, "You still speak outside the essential matter."

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The ultimate truth is not something which you can know. You can live it, but you cannot know it. You have lived life for so long. Can you say you know it? No! You can live your life, but cannot know it. Thinking that you can know it is a kind of ego. You have property in your locker, you have bank balance, now you want that ultimate knowledge also under your belt. This is the holy ego. No! You can only surrender to 'it', you cannot know it. And it is good that it cannot be known. If everything becomes known in the world then there will be so much boredom that people will start committing suicide. This is why Zen Master Longtan says that he doesn't know it.
Secondly, the true homage to any master is that you also meditate and become enlightened. Just paying reverence by words is a way to evade from meditation. This is why I say Buddhist are utterly against Buddha. Jainas are utterly against Mahavira. They pay homage to them but do not meditate and Buddha tried for his whole life to make everyone a Buddha, not his follower. He wanted to liberate everyone but created a new kind of bondage out of him. No! Just paying reverence will not do. Meditate. Zen means meditation.