圓悟佛果禪師語錄 18.8

18.8

He brought up [the following case]: "Sansheng said: 'Whenever I meet someone I come out, but coming out, I do not act for the person.' Xinghua said: 'Whenever I meet someone I do not come out, but coming out, I immediately act for the person.'" The Master commented: "One has his face covered with dirt and head with ashes atop an isolated peak; one cuts through nails and shears through iron at the crossroads—with head and tail, dying together and living together. Tell me: is he who comes out and does not act for the person right, or is he who comes out and immediately acts for the person right?" Raising his fly-whisk, he said: "Through countless ages, the moon in the empty realm of the emerald pool; / only by raking again and again will you finally know."