{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/glg/glg35.htm","path":"bud/glg/glg35.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/glg/glg35.htm","text":"The Gateless Gate, by Ekai, called Mu-mon, tr. Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps [1934]\n\"Seijo, the Chinese girl,\" observed Goso, \"had two souls, one always sick at home and the other in the city, a married woman with two children. Which was the true soul?\"\nMumon's comment: When one understands this, he will know it is possible to come out from one shell and enter another, as if one were stopping at a transient lodging house. But if he cannot understand, when his time comes and his four elements separate, he will be just like a crab dipped in boiling water, struggling with many hands and legs. In such a predicament he may say: \"Mumon did not tell me where to go!\" but it will be too late then.","title":"The Gateless Gate: 35. Two Souls","type":"page"}