One day, Nanquan saw the monks of the eastern and western halls quarreling over a cat. He held up the cat and said, “If you can say it, I won’t kill it.” No one said anything. Nanquan then cut the cat in two.
(Translated by McRae)
Nanquan knew how to cut into two, but he didn't know how to cut into one... If I had been Nanquan, when the students couldn't answer, I would have released the cat saying that the students had already spoken.
--Dogen (Zuimonki 2–4)
Submitted March 24, 2018 at 10:52PM by essentialsalts https://ift.tt/2I387Gt
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