Mutually Dependent? It Depends
Ho-shang Mi of Ching-chao sent a monastic to ask Yangshan: “Right in this very moment, are you dependent on enlightenment?” Yangshan said, “There is no absence of enlightenment. Why fall into the secondary?”
—The Book of Serenity, Case 62; translated by Thomas Cleary
was a peer of Master Yangshan, a very important Chinese master in the Zen lineage.
