明覺禪師語錄 2.146

2.146

He cited: "A monk asked Touzi, 'What is the Tamer of the Ten Bodies?' Touzi got down from the rope-chair and stood. The monk also asked, 'How far apart are the ordinary and the sacred?' Touzi got down from the rope-chair and stood." The Master said, "With this kōan, there is none of you who does not know it intimately. If it is cited like this, the patch-robed monks under heaven will all become a society for reciting words. Could Xuedou have an exceptional point or not? Let me try citing it for the assembly: How far apart are the ordinary and the sacred? Touzi got down from the rope-chair and stood. What is the Tamer of the Ten Bodies? Touzi got down from the rope-chair and stood. Tell me, is this the same as or different from the previous citation? If you say it is the same, I grant that the elder possesses a single eye; if you say there is something extraordinarily different, I also grant that the elder possesses a single eye. I will open another thread of a path: How far apart are the ordinary and the sacred? Please, elder, offer a turning word. What is the Tamer of the Ten Bodies? Answer with a turning phrase. Not only will you have met Touzi, but you will also know Xuedou's exceptional point. Or, if all of you simply say, 'He got down from the rope-chair and stood,' spare your eyebrows!" Then he stepped down from his seat.