鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.71

1.71

Senior Attendant Wang visited the Master one day. While looking around in front of the monks' hall together with the Master, he asked, "Do the monks in this hall read sūtras?" The Master said, "They do not read sūtras." The attendant said, "Do they practice Chan?" The Master said, "They do not practice Chan." The attendant said, "If they neither read sūtras nor practice Chan, what on earth do they do?" The Master said, "I have them all become Buddhas and patriarchs." The attendant said, "Although gold dust is precious, when it falls into the eye it causes a cataract. What about that?" The Master said, "I had taken you for a worldly fellow!"