Apart from pursuing inner cultivation, meditation and deep thought, experiencing muck is also a form of cultivation, for it tests one's ability to endure misfortune and to sacrifice. Only by going to hell and being tempered by fire there, can one rise to religious exaltation and radiate the brightest and most beautiful light.
在內修、靜定、沉思的修行之外，汙泥其實也是鍛鍊，是非理性的忍辱、犧牲，如經地獄煉火，才能完成宗教性的崇高與昇華，迸發出生命最慘烈而華麗的光燄。