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西塔光穆 Xita Guangmu (n.d.)
(Rōmaji:) Saitō Kōboku

Xita Guangmu
by Andy Ferguson
In: Zen's Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings, Wisdom Publications, 2011, p. 230.

XITA GUANGMU (n.d.) was a student of Yangshan Huiji. He succeeded his teacher and taught on Mt. Yang. Little is recorded about his life. The Transmission of the Lamp offers the following brief accounts of his teachings.

A monk asked, “What is upright listening?”

Xita said, “It doesn’t enter through your ear.”

The monk said, “How can that be?”

Xita said, “Do you hear it?”

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A monk asked, “Is the meaning of the ancestors the same as the meaning of the scriptural teaching or not?”

Xita said, “Putting aside ‘same’ or ‘different,’ can you say what it is that goes in and out of the mouth of a water pitcher?”

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A monk asked, “What’s the essential meaning of Zen?”

Xita replied, “You don’t have buddha nature.”

The monk said, “What is sudden enlightenment?”

Xita drew a circle on the ground for the monk to see.

The monk asked, “What is gradual enlightenment?”

Xita poked the middle of the empty space three times with his hand.

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