明覺禪師語錄 2.79

2.79

Ascending the hall, he cited: "A monk asked Zhaozhou: '"The Great Way is not difficult; it only abhors picking and choosing"—is this the nest of contemporary people?' Zhaozhou said: 'Once someone asked me, and for fully five years I could not explain it away.'" The Master said: "Knowing words yet unable to turn them is to die completely. A good twenty blows of the stick would do—yet with this stick, there must be a place to deliver it! If you cannot discern it, for now let this talk circulate widely."