If you come upon a master
and he says “give me your answer,”
how do you respond?
You cannot say to him
that he has not asked a question
for that would be an answer
to a question you say
has not been given.
Better you should bow to him
and sit silently before him.

A reflection on Case 40 of the Book of Equanimity (従容錄, Shōyōroku)