The Japanese Zen Master Muso Kokushi (1275-1351), while still being a monk in training once asked his master: “I still have not clarified the matter of self. Please point the way.” The master answered, “Our school has no words or phrases and nothing to transmit to anyone.” Muso insisted, “That may be so, but be compassionate and at least teach me an expedient means.” The master said, “There are no expedient means, nor is there any compassion.” Finding himself even more confused, Muso went to see a different master and told him about the dialog. The master said, “If a follower of the way separates between the mundane and the spiritual by even so much as a hairbreadth, there is no way liberation can happen.”
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