明覺禪師語錄 3.7

3.7

He brought up: "Great Master Yongjia arrived at the Sixth Patriarch's place. He walked around the meditation bed three times, shook his khakkhara once, and stood upright. The Patriarch said: 'A śramaṇa is endowed with three thousand dignified manners and eighty thousand subtle conducts; from where has the Great Worthy come, giving rise to such great arrogance?'" The Master then gave a shout and said: "If he had delivered this shout at that time, he would have avoided showing a dragon's head and a snake's tail." Again he brought up: "'He walked around the meditation bed three times, shook his khakkhara once, and stood upright.'" On behalf of the Patriarch, he said: "Before you arrived at Caoxi, you had already been given thirty blows of the stick!"