North Carolina Zen Center

The Case Master Gettan said to a monk, “Keichu [the first wheelmaker in ancient China] made a cart whose wheels had a hundred spokes. If you took off the wheels and removed the axle, then what would it be?” The Commentary If you can immediately see through this, your eye will be like a shooting star, your spiritual activity like a flash of lightning. *The Verse When a wheel spins rapidly even a master cannot follow it. It moves in all directions above and below, north, south, east, and west.