黃龍慧南禪師語錄 1.143

1.143

上堂，云：「擬心即差，動念即乖，不擬不動，土木無殊。行脚人須得轉身一路。」遂拈拂子云：「遮箇是山僧拂子，汝等諸人作麼生轉？若也轉得，一為無量、無量為一；若轉不得，布袋裡老鴉，雖活如死。」

Ascending the hall, he said: "Conceiving an intent is immediately an error; moving a thought is immediately a deviation. If one neither conceives nor moves, one is no different from earth and wood. An itinerant practitioner must find the single road of turning the body." Then, taking up his fly-whisk, he said: "This is the mountain monk's fly-whisk. How do all of you turn it? If you can turn it, one becomes immeasurable, and the immeasurable becomes one. If you cannot turn it, you are an old crow in a cloth bag: though alive, as if dead."