- was given a recipe for perfection.
- A member of the imperial family,
- Ts’ao wears the court headress and official robes,
- and carries the tablets of admission to court;
- however, he renounced the life of the court
- to atone for the sins of his brother,
- who had committed a homicide.
- He went to live as a hermit in the mountains,
- where he clothed his head and body with wild plants.
- There, when Lu Tung-pin asked him what he was doing,
- he replied: “I am engaged in studying the way.”
- When asked what was this “way,”
- Ts’ao pointed to the sky.
- When asked where the sky was located,
- he pointed to his heart.
- Impressed, Lu Tung-pin gave him a recipe for perfection
