鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.90

1.90

One day during communal labor, the master was walking behind. Huangbo looked back, saw the master empty-handed, and asked, "Where is your mattock?" The master said, "Someone took it away." Huangbo said, "Come closer, let me confer with you about something." The master stepped forward. Huangbo held up his mattock and said, "Just this one, nobody in the world can lift." The master snatched it from his hand, held it up, and said, "Why is it in my hands?" Huangbo said, "Today a great many people are doing communal labor," and returned to the monastery. Later Guishan asked Yangshan, "The mattock was in Huangbo's hands; why was it snatched away by Linji?" Yangshan said, "The thief is a petty person, but his cunning surpasses a gentleman's."