明覺禪師語錄 3.22

3.22

舉：「南泉示眾云：『道非物外，物外非道。』趙州出問：『如何是物外道？』泉便打，州云：『和尚莫打某甲，向後錯打人去在。』泉云：『龍蛇易辯，衲子難瞞。』」師云：「趙州如龍無角、似蛇有足，當時不管，盡法無民，直須喫棒了趁出。」

He brought up: "Nanquan instructed the assembly, saying: 'The Way is not outside things; outside things is not the Way.' Zhaozhou came forward and asked, 'What is the Way outside things?' Nanquan struck him. Zhou said, 'Upādhyāya, do not strike me; hereafter you will wrongly strike people.' Quan said, 'Dragons and snakes are easy to discern, but patch-robed monks are difficult to deceive.'" The Master said, "Zhaozhou was like a dragon without horns, like a snake with feet. At that time, had [Nanquan] paid him no heed—when the law is applied to the utmost, no subjects remain—he should simply have driven him out after thrashing him with the stick."