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# 汾陽無德禪師語錄 2.72

汾陽無德禪師語錄 2.72

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [2.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.2.72)

韓愈侍郎問大顛：「和尚春秋多少？」顛提起數珠云：「會麼？」侍云：「不會。」顛云：「晝夜一百八。」明日復來，門首見首座，遂問：「和尚道：晝夜一百八。意旨如何？」首座叩齒三下。侍郎至方丈復問：「晝夜一百八意，旨如何？」大顛叩齒三下。侍云：「元來佛法不別。」顛云：「侍郎見何道理？」侍云：「適來問首座，亦恁麼祇對。」顛請首座問：「適來恁麼祗對侍郎是否？」座云：「是。」顛乃打趁出院。

> Vice Minister Han Yu asked Dadian, "What is the Venerable's age?"  
> Dadian held up his rosary and said, "Do you understand?"  
> The Vice Minister said, "I do not understand."  
> Dadian said, "Day and night, one hundred and eight."  
> The next day he came again, met the head monk at the gate, and asked, "The Venerable said, 'Day and night, one hundred and eight.' What was his meaning?"  
> The head monk clicked his teeth three times.  
> The Vice Minister went to the abbot's quarters and asked again, "What is the meaning of 'Day and night, one hundred and eight'?"  
> Dadian clicked his teeth three times.  
> The Vice Minister said, "Originally the Buddhadharma is not different."  
> Dadian said, "What principle does the Vice Minister see?"  
> The Vice Minister said, "Just now when I asked the head monk, he also answered like this."  
> Dadian summoned the head monk and asked, "Did you just answer the Vice Minister like that?"  
> The head monk said, "Yes."  
> Dadian then beat him and expelled him from the monastery.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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