汾陽無德禪師語錄 2.177

2.177

Yongjia arrived at the Sixth Patriarch's place. He walked around the rope-bed, shook his staff, and stood there. The Patriarch said, "A śramaṇa is endowed with the three thousand dignities and eighty thousand subtle conducts. From where has the Great Worthy come, generating such great conceit?"
The Master said, "The matter of birth and death is great; impermanence is swift."
The Patriarch said, "Why not embody the unborn and comprehend what is without swiftness?"
The Master said, "The embodiment itself is unborn; reaching the source, there is no swiftness."
The Patriarch said, "Do you deeply obtain the meaning of the unborn?"
The Master said, "How could the unborn have meaning?"
The Patriarch said, "Since there is no meaning, who makes the distinctions?"
The Master said, "Making distinctions is also not a meaning."
The Patriarch said, "So it is, so it is."