虛堂和尚語錄 1.115

1.115

Ascending the hall: "When words are sufficient, speaking all day long exhausts the Way; when words are insufficient, speaking all day long exhausts things. Tell me, are the Way and things one or two? If you say they are one, why is the guest mountain high and the host mountain low? If you say they are two, why are heaven and earth a single finger, and the ten thousand things a single horse? If you can discern the black from the white in this, I will repay your straw-sandal money. If not, I only hope that next year the silkworms and wheat ripen, and I will give child Rāhula a single coin."