"Taoshin came and bowed to Sengtsan, and said, 'I will ask you for your merciful teaching. Please show me how to be released.' Sengtsan answered, 'Who has bound you?' 'No one,' he replied. Sengtsan said, 'Why then do you asked to be released?' Taoshin immediately came to a profound realization."

"A monk said to Shifukyu, 'I have not finished even one summer seclusion in the monastery, and I do not ask for your teaching — but help me please!'

"Shifukyu pushed him away and said: 'Since I have been living here, I have never once blinded a monk.'

"I have myself blinded many people with my explanations. I am still at it.”