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# 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 17.38

圓悟佛果禪師語錄 17.38

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [17.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.17.38)

舉：「雲門示眾云：『百草頭上道將一句來。』眾無對，自代云：『俱。』」師拈云：「直得萬機寢削、千眼頓開，細如須彌、大如芥子，軟如鐵、硬如泥。雖然如是，只道得一半。或有問山僧，只對他道：『收。』且道：落在什麼處？」

> \[The Master\] cited: "Yunmen instructed the assembly, saying: 'Speak a phrase atop the tips of the hundred grasses!' When the assembly had no response, he substituted on their behalf, saying: 'Both!'"  
> The Master critiqued: "Directly causing the ten thousand machinations to rest and fall away, and a thousand eyes to suddenly open; as fine as Mount Sumeru, as large as a mustard seed; soft as iron, hard as mud. Even though this is so, he only managed to say half. If someone were to ask this mountain monk, I would simply say to him: 'Withdrawn.' But tell me: where does this end up?"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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