虛堂和尚語錄 1.145

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上堂，舉：「臨際因趙州遊山，到院後架洗脚次，際便問：『如何是祖師西來意？』州云：『恰值老僧洗脚。』際近前作聽勢，州云：『會即便會，㗖啄作甚麼？』際便歸方丈，州云：『三十年行脚，今日錯為人解註。』」師云：「攫金者不見人，逐鹿者不見山。」

Ascending the hall, he cited: "When Linji, on the occasion of Zhaozhou touring the mountain, saw him washing his feet at the rear frame of the monastery, Linji thereupon asked, 'What is the meaning of the ancestral master coming from the west?' Zhaozhou said, 'It just so happens that this old monk is washing his feet.' Linji stepped forward in a posture of listening. Zhaozhou said, 'If you understand, then understand right away; what are you pecking and chewing at?' Linji thereupon returned to the abbot's quarters. Zhaozhou said, 'Thirty years of itinerant pilgrimage, and today I have mistakenly made an exposition for someone.'"
The master said, "One who seizes gold sees no people; one who chases a deer sees no mountain."