One day a monk paid a visit to Tinh Khong (1091-1170), a Vietnamese Zen master, who was of the tenth generation of Vo Ngon Thong lineage, and asked:
-From old days it was talked about "direct pointing", what does that mean?
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When you begin to see yourself as a stranger in a strange land and belongeth not to the empire (all hail, ha ha ha) you find that you "render unto Caesar what is Caesars and unto God what is Gods." You begin to live the life interior upon which all manifestation plays out, yet on the outside "when in Rome do as the Romans do."