明覺禪師語錄 4.38

English (machine translation) 4.38

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4.38

Ascending the hall, he said: "'The mouth is only fit for eating rice'—Great Master Yunmen has already brought it up. What sound of a clinking bowl have you come here to listen to?" With his staff, he drove them all away with blows at once. Speaking on behalf of the monks at that moment, he simply stepped forward, grabbed the staff, and said: "Upādhyāya, today you are tired." He also said: "The key mechanism is not what I ask about; Venerable, how is it that Niutou speaks this way and that?" Speaking on their behalf, he said: "What reason is there for it?"

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明覺禪師語錄 — Classical Chinese