袁州仰山慧寂禪師語錄 1.78

1.78

Guishan brought up Huangbo instructing the assembly: "All of you are dregs-eating fellows! If you go on itinerant practice like this, where will today ever be? Do you know that in the great Tang realm there are no Chan masters?" At the time a monk said, "Then what about those who guide disciples and lead assemblies in all quarters?" Huangbo said, "I do not say there is no Chan, only that there are no masters." He asked the Master, "How is it?" The Master said, "The goose king extracts milk; he is naturally unlike ducks." Guishan said, "This is indeed hard to distinguish." (The encounter dialogues between Guishan and Yangshan as master and disciple, echoing and evaluating each other, are very numerous; those already complete in the Record of Linji are not repeated here.)