如淨和尚語錄 1.129

1.129

He brought up again: "I remember an ancient case. In the past there were two venerable elders. One said, 'When I meet someone, I do not emerge; if I emerge, I immediately act for the person.' The other said, 'When I meet someone, I immediately emerge; if I emerge, I do not act for the person.' Jingci borrows these two venerable elders to make a carrying pole, shoulders it, and wants patch-robed monks of the four seas and five lakes to pass it on from generation to generation. Such carrying is called shouldering the Buddhas and Patriarchs. But tell me, how does Jingci act right now? / Carrying it here, carrying it there, and carrying it back again; / Shaking the scene so that it penetrates the nine realms."