Chapter Four:The Way of Humanity 59

After returning from an excursion to the Diamond Mountains, a person said to the Founding Master, “While I was on an excursion there, I saw a man who was able to call forth and send away crows or snakes at will. I suppose he is a real person of the Way?”
The Founding Master said,
“Crows flock together with other crows, and snakes stay together with other snakes. Why would a person of the Way stay with crows and snakes?”
The man asked, “Then what is a real person of the Way?”
The Founding Master said, “A real person of the Way simply follows the Way of a human being amid other humans.” The man asked, “If that’s the case, then aren’t there any distinguishing traits of a person of the Way?” The Founding Master said, “No, there aren’t.”
The man asked, “Then, how do we recognize a person of the Way?”
The Founding Master said, “If you are not a person of the Way yourself, it will be hard to recognize him even if you see one. Only if you speak a foreign language well, can you tell whether or not another person speaks that language well. Only if you know music well, can you tell whether another person’s music is well played or not. Therefore, it is said that it takes one to know one.”

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