“If it wasn’t you, then who was it?” The abbot answered. It seemed like he was relying back on Zen studies to come back at Zhang Ye. In this field, the abbot was a “specialized major”.
However, Zhang Ye did not give him a chance. He immediately took a Buddhist story from his world. He then pointed at a flag at the corner of the monastery. The flag was flapping in the wind, “With the wind blowing, the flag flaps. Do you say the wind is moving or the flag is moving?”
A young monk was the first to answer, “Of course the wind is moving!”
Zhang Ye shook his head.
An old monk said, “The flag is moving?”
Zhang Ye carried on shaking his head.
A monk said, “Then what is moving? The world is moving?”