Now you have to follow much smaller inlets. You zoom in again. This is where fractal mathematics comes in, because what a fractal is, is a mathematical description of HOW complicated a coastline is. It is still infinite, but some coastlines are more wavy than others, and a fractal is a description of that. So, we will never get to Boston.
Ordinary mind is the way Nansen replied.
Now this ordinary mind is of course two totally different things. This quote is from Eno the 6th patriarch. My ordination name, Mokudo, means The way of silence , but Eido Roshi said that I was given that name because I talked too much, so actually it means shut up . The wisdom of enlightenment is inherent in everyone if us. It is because of delusion, under which our mind works, that we fail to realize it ourselves and we have to seek the advice and guidance of enlightened ones before we can know our own essence of Mind.