In Yongping Temple, a bow-backed Chan master of an age over eighty was drying mushrooms in the sun. The Abbot Master Daoyuan saw him and couldn't help saying, "You elder are too aged to do the tiring work. Why don't you ask others to do it for you?"

The old Chan master replied immediately, "Others are not me."

Daoyuan, "That's true. But you needn't choose to do it in such a torrid sun!"

Old Chan master, "Should I dry mushroom in a cloudy or rainy day?"

Whatever a Chan practitioner does, he does it by himself. Neither he asks others to do it, nor does he put it off till the next day. "Others are not me", and "not now, whenever else" are questions we modern people should reflect upon.