A monk asked Kassan, “What if one sweeps away the dust and sees Buddha?” 
Kassan said, “You must brandish your sword. If you do not brandish your sword, the fisherman dwells in a nest of reeds.”
The monk mentioned this to Sekisô and asked him, “What if one sweeps away the dust and sees Buddha?” 
Sekisô said, “He has no country. Where can one meet him?”
The monk reported this to Kassan. 
Kassan ascended the rostrum and said, “As for the facilities in the garden, the old monk is superior to Sekisô, but for deep discourse expounding the true principle he is one hundred steps ahead of me.”
David Given Schwarm 
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