大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.27

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In the assembly of Wuzu there was a monk named Fahuo. When he entered the room, Wuzu asked: 'Who is the one who does not keep company with the ten thousand dharmas?' The monk said: 'For Fahuo, that is not so.' Wuzu pointed his finger and said: 'Stop, stop! How is it that for Fahuo it is not so?' Huo experienced awakening under these words. Later he reached the room of Reverend Xuanmi Du at Donglin and obtained the full import of plainness and solidity. One day Huo held a flower, circled the meditation bed once, placed it behind his back into the incense burner, and said: 'May the Reverend say: what was the intention?' Xuanmi repeatedly offered words, but Huo did not accept them. After two months, [Xuanmi] then asked Huo: 'Try to speak of it.' Huo said: 'I only put a flower into the incense burner; it was the Reverend who doubted himself—what other affair was there?'