宏智禪師廣錄 3.22

3.22

[The Master] cited Jianyuan when Baogai came to visit: Yuan rolled up the screen, entered the Abbot's room, and sat. Gai lowered the screen and returned to the guest quarters. Yuan ordered his attendant to deliver a message: "Traveling from afar is not easy; you are still separated by a ford." Just as he finished speaking, Gai slapped him. The attendant said, "The Abbot is present; do not strike me." Gai said, "It is precisely because the Abbot is present that I strike you." The attendant returned and recounted this to Yuan. Yuan said, "Still separated by a ford." The Master said, "Indeed, still separated by a ford. Nevertheless, each one of them has their own house. How can they share birth and share death, joined in a single destiny as connected branches? In the dark pulling out the cross-bone; in the light sitting on the tongue."