Joshu

A monk asked, “What is the mind that the Patriarch brought from the west?”
The master said, “This chair leg is.”
The monk said, “That’s it, isn’t it?”
The master said, “If it is, take it away with you.”‘(The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu)

Another one falls into grasping.


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