When Yang-shan Hui-chi (807-883), as a young monk, paid a visit to the Ch'an master Hsing-k'ung, there was a monk who asked Hsing-k'ung:
-What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?
Hsing-k'ung replied:
-Suppose...
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WHO IS THE ONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW?
One day when P'ang layman (740-808)was selling bamboo baskets at the market place of Hung-chou. Seeing a monk begging alms, he took out a cash and said: -Can you tell me how to appreciate alms? The monk had nothing to say. P'ang layman said: -Ask me and I will tell you. The monk asked: -What is it to appreciate alms? P'ang layman replied: -Man seldom hears it. Then he asked the monk: -Do you understand? The monk said: -I do not understand. P'ang layman asked: -Who is the one who does not understand?
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