If you ask your question
you will find an answer
but ask another and the stick
will respond each time.
If you seek another teacher
will you change the question
or the answer, and does it matter.
Take up the stick, who
will you strike, your teacher
or yourself, and is there
any real difference?

A reflection on Case 27 of the Shobogenzo (Dogen’s True Dharma Eye)

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