法演禪師語錄 2.49

2.49

Ascending the hall, a monk asked, "How does one take a step forward from the top of a hundred-foot pole?" The Master said, "Only by running fast will you make it." He then cited: "Yunmen said: 'Hearing sound, one awakens to the Way; seeing form, one clarifies the mind. Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva brings money to buy a sesame cake; putting down his hand, it turns out to be a steamed bun.' Yunmen was good, exceedingly good; wondrous, exceedingly wondrous; yet he only managed to speak of grandmotherly Chan. With Baiyun it is not so. What is hearing sound and awakening to the Way, seeing form and clarifying the mind?" He then raised his hand, making the gesture of playing an hourglass drum, and said, "Shan-ba-la-zha!"