筠州洞山悟本禪師語錄 1.51

1.51

上堂曰：「道無心合人，人無心合道，欲識箇中意，一老一不老。」後僧問曹山：「如何是一老？」山云：「不扶持。」云：「如何是一不老？」山云：「枯木。」僧又舉似逍遙忠。忠云：「三從六義。」又曰：「此事直須妙會，事在其妙，體在妙處。」

Ascending the hall, he said: "The Way has no mind to accord with people; people have no mind to accord with the Way. If you wish to understand the meaning within this: one is old, one is not old." Later, a monk asked Caoshan: "What is the one that is old?" Caoshan said: "Not supporting." [The monk] said: "What is the one that is not old?" Caoshan said: "A withered tree." The monk also brought this up to Xiaoyao Zhong. Zhong said: "The three obediences and the six principles of poetry." He also said: "This matter must be wondrously understood; the matter lies in its wonder, the essence lies in the place of wonder."