明覺禪師語錄 3.17

English (machine translation) 3.17

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3.17

He brought up: "Zhaozhou asked an old woman, 'Where are you going?' She said, 'Going to steal Zhaozhou's bamboo shoots.' Zhou said, 'What if you suddenly run into Zhaozhou?' The old woman slapped him; Zhou then ceased." The Master said, "A good slap! Even if she had struck him with two more slaps, he would have had nowhere to interrogate her."

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明覺禪師語錄 — Classical Chinese