註華嚴經題法界觀門頌 1.152

1.152

Pointing to the moon with a finger, what harm is there in occasionally playing with the fingertip? Awakening to the teaching and penetrating the real, how could following along to read and turn [the pages] be an obstacle? As when a monk asked Yaoshan: "The Venerable usually admonishes people not to read the scriptures; why do you read them yourself?" Yaoshan said: "I just want to screen my eyes." This is the meaning.