{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/glg/glg44.htm","path":"bud/glg/glg44.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/glg/glg44.htm","text":"The Gateless Gate, by Ekai, called Mu-mon, tr. Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps [1934]\nBasho said to his disciple: \"When you have a staff, I will give it to you. If you have no staff, I will take it away from you.\"\nMumon's comment: When there is no bridge over the creek the staff will help me. When I return home on a moonless night the staff will accompany me. But if you call this a staff, you will enter hell like an arrow.","title":"The Gateless Gate: 44. Basho's Staff","type":"page"}