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Guishan said to Yangshan, "The Nirvana Sutra has about forty chapters of the Buddha's teaching; how many of these are devil teachings?" Yangshan said, "All of them." Guishan said, "From now on nobody will be able to do what he likes with you." Yangshan said, "From now on what should be my mode of life?" Guishan said, "I admire your [Eye of the Law]; I am not concerned about the practical side of the matter."

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Yangshan asked Zhongyi, "What is the meaning of buddha nature?" Zhongyi said, "I'll tell you a simile: it's like putting a monkey in a room with six windows—when someone outside calls it, 'Simian! Simian!' the monkey then responds. In this way, called through all six windows it responds." Yangshan said, "What about when the monkey is asleep?" Zhongyi got right down from his seat, grabbed and held Yangshan and said, "Simian, Simian, you and I see each other."

If there is a call for it, there is a transaction; no call, no transaction. If I spoke of the source of Zen, I wouldn’t find a single associate, let alone a group of five hundred to seven hundred followers. If I talk of one thing and another, then they struggle forward to take it in. It is like fooling children with an empty fist; there’s nothing really there.