宏智禪師廣錄 3.50

3.50

[The Master] cited: Bajiao instructed the assembly, saying: “If you have a staff, I give you a staff; if you have no staff, I snatch away your staff.”
The Master said: “If you have it, then everything has it; if you have it not, then everything has it not. Having and not having belong naturally to the person in question; what do giving and taking have to do with Bajiao? Just at such a moment, what is your staff?”