Yang Shan asked a monk, “Where have you just come from?”
The monk said, “Mount Lu.”
Yang Shan said,” Did you visit Five Elders peak?”
The monk said, “I didn’t get there.”
Yang Shan said, “You never visited the mountain at all.”
(Later.) Yun Men said, “These words were all for the sake of compassion; thus they had a conversation in the weeds.
– case 34 from the Blue Cliff Record