
One day a student asked Zen Master Man Gong, “Where is the Buddha’s Dharma?” “Right in front of you.” The student replied, “You say, ‘In front of you,’ but I cannot see it.” “You have ‘I,’ so you cannot see.” Man Gong answered, “If you make ‘I,’ you cannot see. But if you make ‘you,’ it is even more difficult to see.” “If I have no ‘I,’ no ‘you,’ then who is speaking?”