This is a beautiful Zen Story.
When he was with Kyozan, ryusen was the monk in charge of food. One day a strange monk came and asked for a meal, at which Ryusen gave him part of his own.
Kyozan knew of this but called ryusen to him and asked, ”that enlightened monk who came just now – did he give you any food?”
Ryusen said, ”He denied himself and passed on his alms.”
Kyozan commented: ”you made a great profit.”
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