Mumonkan - Case 35: Two souls

Goso asked a monk,
  "Sei, the Chinese girl, who was separated from her soul. Which was
   the real Sei?"


Mumon's Comments:

If you obtain genuine awareness of reality, you will know that the soul passes
from one husk to another as travellers lodged in an inn. But if you have not
obtained the awareness, you should not run around in confusion when the four
elements are suddenly ready to become separated (i.e., to die), like a crab
with its seven arms and eight legs thrown into the boiling water. Never say
that I did not warn you.

   The moon in the clouds is one and the same,
   Valleys and mountains are various.
   Fortunes above fortunes,
   Is it one, or is it two?