圓悟佛果禪師語錄 19.63

19.63

[Yuanwu] brought up [the case]: "Shitou saw Yaoshan sitting and asked, 'What are you doing here?' Yaoshan said, 'I am not doing a single thing.' Shitou said, 'Then you are sitting idly.' Yaoshan said, 'Sitting idly is doing something.' Shitou said, 'You say you are not doing; not doing what?' Yaoshan said, 'Even the thousand sages do not know.' Shitou praised him with a verse: 'Living together from the first, without knowing the name, / following along with conditions, just walking like this. / Since ancient times, even supreme sages did not know; / how could hasty commoners ever understand?'"