David Given Schwarm

Ôbaku instructed the assembly and said, “You are all drinkers of lees. If you continue to go on your Way like this, where will the ‘Today’ be? Do you know that in this great empire of Tang there is no Zen master?”

Now a monk came forward and said, “What would you say to the fact that in various places there are people who accept students and direct their assemblies?”

Ôbaku said, “I don’t say that there is no Zen; I only say that there is no master.”