If the process of the cicada hatching out is like that of Chan's Sudden Enlightenment, then this kind of Sudden Enlightenment is like the passing of seventeen dark years. Such a transformation can only be from grub to mature insect, from which there can be no going back to the grub. "
「如果，蟬的羽化過程像禪的頓悟，那麼這種頓悟是經十七年的黑暗期，在體質、生理和器官上的徹底改造，才由幼蟲變成成蟲，從此不會再變回幼蟲。」