明覺禪師語錄 2.113

2.113

The Master asked a newly arrived [monk]: "Ācārya, where are you from?" The monk lifted up his sitting mat. The Master said: "A shrimp cannot leap out of a peck-measure." The monk said: "A leap!" The Master then struck him. The monk said: "Another leap!" The Master struck him again. The monk then ran away. The Master called him back. The monk then bowed and said: "I have offended the upādhyāya." The Master said: "I want this conversation to proceed; why did you run off?" The monk said: "It has already spread across the entire world." The Master struck him five more times. The monk said: "The other regions are watching!" The Master said: "You only care about taking the stick." The Master called the second man forward: "Where are you from?" [The monk] said: "A man of Dingzhou." The Master said: "A defeat!" The monk said: "Blue sky and bright sun." The Master said: "A double public case." The monk said: "Exactly so." The Master pointed with his staff and said: "You intend to make a leap." As the monk hesitated, the Master also struck him five times. The leader of the postulants said: "This monk taking the stick is not the same as for me!" The Master immediately called him forward. That monk said: "Take care!" and ran off. The Master gave him a strike of the staff from behind.