Mumonkan

CASE 35. TWO SOULS Goso asked a monk, "Sei, the Chinese girl, who was separated from her soul. Which was the real Sei?" Mumon's Comments: If you obtain genuine awareness of reality, you will know that the soul passes from one husk to another as travellers lodged in an inn. But if you have not obtained the awareness, you should not run around in confusion when the four elements are suddenly ready to become separated (i.e., to die), like a crab with its seven arms and eight legs thrown into the boiling water. Never say that I did not warn you. The moon in the clouds is one and the same, Valleys and mountains are various. Fortunes above fortunes, Is it one, or is it two?