景德傳燈錄 5.91

5.91

There was also a Chan Master Fakong, who asked: "The Buddha and the Way are both provisional names, and the twelve divisions of the canon should also be unreal. Why have the venerable elders from the past all spoken of cultivating the Way?" The Master said: "The Venerable Sir has misunderstood the meaning of the sūtras. The Way is fundamentally without cultivation; the Venerable Sir forcibly cultivates it. The Way is fundamentally without action; the Venerable Sir forcibly acts. The Way is fundamentally without affairs; you forcibly generate many affairs. The Way is fundamentally without knowledge; within it you forcibly know. Such an understanding is contrary to the Way. The venerable elders of the past could not have been like this; it is simply that the Venerable Sir does not understand. Please reflect upon it." The Master also had a verse, which went: