"If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way."

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The highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked Bodhidharma: "What is the First Principle?" Bodhidharma said, "I don't know." "I don't know" is the First Principle.

— Shunryu Suzuki