鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.13

1.13

茲者總統雪堂和尚，憫巴歌唱而和寡，嗟雪曲彈而應稀，語錄闕文，叢林罕見，遂旁求釋子而再起斯文，欲鏤板以廣流通，俾參玄而得受用，弘揚祖道，垂裕後昆。棒頭喝下須明石火電光，正案傍提要顧眉毛鼻孔，其他機緣備載前錄，不勞再舉。

Now, Chief Abbot Venerable Xuetang, lamenting that the rustic songs found few to harmonize and sighing that the snow melodies played found rare response, saw that this recorded sayings lacked text and was seldom seen in chan groves. Thereupon he sought widely among Buddhist disciples to revive these writings, wishing to engrave the blocks for broad circulation, so that those investigating the mysterious might derive benefit, propagating the ancestral way and extending abundance to later generations. Beneath the stick and within the shout, one must be clear as flint-sparks and lightning-flash; in raising the main case from the side, one must look out for eyebrows and nostrils. Other encounter occasions are fully recorded in previous records and need not be brought up again.