projections

In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or
four hills and a cloud.

(wallace stevens, CP, 57)

chang chung-yuan:

It is traditionally said by Ch'annists that before one is enlightened one sees a mountain as a mountain and a river as a river; in the process of attaining enlightenment, mountains are no longer mountains, rivers no longer rivers; but when one has finally achieved enlightenment, mountains are once more mountains, rivers once more rivers.