Layman P'ang was sitting in his thatched cottage one day. "Difficult, difficult, difficult," he suddenly exclaimed, "[like trying] to scatter ten measures of sesame seed all over a tree!"
"Easy, easy, easy," returned Mrs. P'ang, "just like touching your feet to the ground when you get out of bed."
"Neither difficult nor easy," said Ling-chao. "On the hundred grass-tips, the Patriarch's meaning."
Commentary
Everyone has their feet on the ground. Is walking difficult or easy?
Source: The Recorded Sayings of Layman P'ang by Ruth Fuller Sasaki
Photo by Adam Rice
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