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# 明覺禪師語錄 3.18

明覺禪師語錄 3.18

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.3.18)

舉：「保壽開堂日，三聖推出一僧，壽便打，聖云：『漝麼為人，瞎却鎮州一城人眼去在。』壽便歸方丈。」師云：「保壽、三聖雖發明臨濟正法眼藏，要且只解無佛處稱尊。當時者僧若是箇漢，纔被推出，便掀倒禪床，直饒保壽全機，也較三千里。」

> He brought up: "On the day Baoshou opened his hall, Sansheng pushed forward a monk. Shou struck him. Sheng said, 'Acting for people like this blinds the eyes of the people of the whole city of Zhenzhou!' Shou then returned to the abbot's quarters." The Master said, "Although Baoshou and Sansheng brought forth Linji's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, they only knew how to proclaim themselves supreme where there is no Buddha. At that time, if this monk had been a \[real\] fellow, the moment he was pushed forward he would have overturned the meditation platform; even if Baoshou had displayed his full dynamic function, he would still have fallen short by three thousand miles."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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