If a teacher asks you
whether you are searching
for this or for that
how do you answer him?
If you say for this
he will frown, but
if you say for that
he will also frown.
If you say there is
no this or that,
there only is,
he will smile the smile
of the Buddha.

A reflection on Case 84 of the Book of Equanimity (従容錄, Shōyōroku)