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# 明覺禪師語錄 3.99

明覺禪師語錄 3.99

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [3.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.3.99)

舉：「船子云：『千尺絲綸直下垂，一波纔動萬波隨，夜靜水寒魚不食，滿船空載月明歸。』」師云：「者漢勞而無功，忽若雲門道，一句合頭語，萬劫繫驢橛，又作麼生免此過？」良久云：「莫謂水寒魚不食，如今釣得滿船歸。」

> He cited: "Chuanzi said: / 'A thousand feet of fishing line hangs straight down; / As soon as one wave stirs, ten thousand waves follow. / The night is quiet, the water cold, and the fish do not bite; / The boat returns empty, loaded only with bright moonlight.'" The Master said, "This fellow labored without result. If suddenly, as Yunmen said, 'A single matching word is a donkey-peg for ten thousand kalpas,' how could he avoid this fault?" After a long pause he said, "Do not say the water is cold and the fish do not bite; / Now he has caught a full boatload and returns."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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