明覺禪師語錄 2.171

2.171

上堂云：「禪河隨浪靜，定水逐波清。若拄杖子是浪，衲僧便七縱八橫；忽乾坤大地是浪，便見扶籬摸壁。且道放行好？把定好？」一日云：「春雷已發，陽鳥未啼，迷身句即不問爾，透出一字作麼生道？」

Ascending the hall, he said: "'The river of Chan calms along with the waves; the water of samādhi clarifies following the ripples.' If the staff is a wave, patch-robed monks act seven-longitudinal and eight-transverse; if suddenly heaven and earth, the great earth, are a wave, one then sees leaning on fences and groping walls. Tell me, is letting go good, or is holding fast good?" One day he said: "The spring thunder has already struck, but the sunny birds have not yet cried. I do not ask you about the sentence that confuses the body—how do you say the word that penetrates through?"