{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/glg/glg43.htm","path":"bud/glg/glg43.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/glg/glg43.htm","text":"The Gateless Gate, by Ekai, called Mu-mon, tr. Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps [1934]\nShuzan held out his short staff and said: \"If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?\"\nMumon's comment: If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. It cannot be expressed with words and it cannot be expressed without words. Now say quickly what it is.","title":"The Gateless Gate: 43. Shuzan's Short Staff","type":"page"}