因果

遂問、大修行底人、還落因果也無

不落不昧
兩采一賽
不昧不落
千錯萬錯
(無門)

Tell me, does a man of enlightenment fall under the yoke of causation or not?

Not falling, not ignoring:
Two faces of one die.
Not ignoring, not falling:
A thousand errors, a million mistakes.
(Wumen)

* Image: Gaki-zoshi (a portion of the scroll of the hungry ghosts), Kyoto National Museum

The scroll tells one part of the seven-part story of the gaki, or hungry ghosts. The emaciated ghosts, with their skeleton-thin limbs and swollen bellies, are invisible to the human eye. They are in a state of perpetual thirst and lick the drops of spilled water in a temple cemetery.