Who will there be

　　Pick it up. Let it fall.

　　Who is mindful of the Buddha

　　Ha! Ha! Ha!

　　Put it down. Can”t let it go

　　Who”s the Buddha mindful of

　　Ho! Ho! Ho!

　　It is not you. It is not me.

　　The two of us are two too many.

　　It is you, and it is me.

　　But when Sumeru topples,

　　Who will there be

　　Verse for starting the Chan session

　　Gold Mountain Chan Monastery, San Francisco

　　March 11th, 1972

　　“Mind from the West Mind from the West

　　Teach me a way to escape from this cage.”

　　“To escape from the cage; To escape from the cage;

　　Put out both legs, close both eyes.

　　This is the way, to escape from the cage!”