[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [汾陽無德禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992) › 2.6 # 汾陽無德禪師語錄 2.6 汾陽無德禪師語錄 2.6 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.2.6) 馬祖住菴時常坐禪，讓和尚將甎於菴前磨，祖云：「磨甎作什麼？」讓云：「作鏡。」祖云：「磨甎豈得成鏡？」讓云：「磨甎既不成鏡，坐禪豈得成佛？」云：「如何即是？」讓云：「譬如駕車，牛若不行，打車即是？打牛即是？」 > When Mazu was staying in a hermitage, he often sat in meditation. Venerable Rang took a brick and polished it in front of the hermitage. The Patriarch said: "What are you polishing a brick for?" Rang said: "To make a mirror." The Patriarch said: "How can polishing a brick make a mirror?" Rang said: "If polishing a brick cannot make a mirror, how can sitting in meditation make a Buddha?" \[Mazu\] said: "What then is correct?" Rang said: "Take, for example, driving a cart: if the ox does not move, is it right to hit the cart, or is it right to hit the ox?" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.2.5) - [Next: 2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.2.7) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992~en-mt.2.6) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.2.6) · Pramāṇa