明覺禪師語錄 4.7

4.7

Instructing the assembly, he said: "What about 'three thousand li away'?" Speaking on their behalf, he said: "Passed." Or he would say: "Before the Buddha appeared in the world, each person's nostrils towered to the heavens. After he appeared in the world, why was there no news at all?" Speaking on their behalf, he said: "A thief does not burgle a poor man's house." He asked a monk: "'A thief does not burgle a poor man's house'—why then was it burgled?" Speaking on their behalf, he said: "It must come to this."