Case 76: Tanka's "Eating Rice" Tanka asked a monk, "Where have you come from?" The monk answered, "From the foot of the mountain." Tanka asked, "Have you eaten your rice?" The monk said, "Yes I have eaten it." Tanka said, "The one who brought rice and gave it to you to eat did he have an [enlightened] eye?" The monk said nothing. Chokei asked Hofuku, "Surely it is an act of thanksgiving [1] to bring rice and give it to the people to eat. How then is it possible not to have an [enlightened] eye?" Hofuku said, "Server and receiver are both blind." Chokei said, "Even if one has done everything, does one still remain blind, or not?" Hofuku said, "Do you call me blind?" [1]: That is, for the guidance already received from buddhas, patriarchs and masters.