雲門匡真禪師廣錄 2.80

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2.80

He brought up: "Zhuyu ascended the hall and said: 'None of you should drive a stake into empty space.' At that time Senior Monk Lingxu stepped forward from the assembly and said: 'Empty space is the stake.' Zhuyu struck him at once. Lingxu said: 'Upādhyāya, do not mistakenly strike me.' Zhuyu then returned to the abbot's quarters." The Master said, "Adding a point onto shit." A monk said, "Did the Upādhyāya speak like that just now?" The Master said, "Striking the bell to end the reverberation, out comes a toad!"

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雲門匡真禪師廣錄 — Classical Chinese