筠州洞山悟本禪師語錄 1.38

1.38

While the Master was making offerings before the portrait of Yunyan, a monk asked, "Our late master said, 'Just this is it.' Could it be just this?" The Master said, "Yes." The monk said, "What is the meaning?" The Master said, "At that time I almost misunderstood our late master's meaning." The monk said, "I wonder, did our late master know that it exists or not?" The Master said, "If he did not know that it exists, how could he have spoken thus? If he knew that it exists, how could he have been willing to speak thus?" Changqing said, "Since he knew that it exists, why did he speak thus?" He also said, "Only when raising a child does one know a father's benevolence."