虛堂和尚語錄 3.28

3.28

He brought up [the case]: "Yunmen instructed the assembly: 'On flat ground, dead men are countless; one who can emerge from the forest of thorns is a skilled hand.' At that time a monk came forward and said: 'If so, then the head monk in the hall has merit.' Yunmen said: 'Sulu, sulu.'" The master said: "Yunmen was very much like Ren the Young Master who prepared fifty bullocks and cast his line to fish in the Eastern Sea. This mountain monk is normally good at bearing with faults and does not wish to proclaim people's errors. Why is this?" Striking his whisk, he said: "What official is without self-interest? What water is without fish?"