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# 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 20.20

圓悟佛果禪師語錄 20.20

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [20.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.20.20)

機關並是閑家具，玄妙渾成破草鞋，鐵額銅頭超佛祖，  
橫拈倒捉一坑埋。

> Dynamic contrivances are all useless furniture; / Mysterious marvels become entirely worn-out straw sandals. / Iron forehead and copper head surpassing buddhas and patriarchs, / Grasped horizontally and held upside down, buried in a single pit.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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