汾陽無德禪師語錄 2.316

2.316

"A non-Buddhist in Western India asked a monk who had entered samādhi: 'The lineage of a wheel-turning king, the lineage of sentient beings, neither a Buddha nor an arhat, not receiving a future rebirth—what does this mean?' The arhat had no words, so he went back into samādhi to ask Maitreya, and Maitreya answered for him. Emerging from samādhi, he replied as Maitreya had said: 'It is like a potter kneading clay to form a vessel.'" Replacing [the original words], he said: "I have troubled the venerable one to exert his spiritual power back and forth."