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圓悟佛果禪師語錄 9.11

圓悟佛果禪師語錄 9.11

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Classical Chinese

9.11

示眾云:「德山小參不答話,打鎖敲枷;趙州小參要答話,將杖探水。崇寧今夜也不管答話,亦不管不答話,偶然向衣單下,拾得箇千年桃核,舉似大眾。」乃橫拄杖云:「爾諸人若也恁麼,坐斷天下人舌頭。」復以拄杖卓地云:「爾諸人若也恁麼,入地獄如箭射。且道利害在什麼處?若不同床臥,焉知被底穿。」

He instructed the assembly, saying: "At Deshan's informal gatherings he did not answer questions—breaking locks and smashing cangues; at Zhaozhou's informal gatherings he wished to answer questions—taking a staff to sound the water. Chongning tonight neither cares about answering questions nor cares about not answering questions. By chance, from under my robes, I picked up a thousand-year-old peach stone to present to the great assembly." Then, holding his staff horizontally, he said: "If you all are like this, you will cut off the tongues of everyone under heaven." Again he tapped the staff on the ground and said: "If you all are like this, you will enter hell as swiftly as an arrow shot from a bow. Tell me: where do the benefit and harm lie? If one does not sleep in the same bed, how can one know that the quilt is worn through underneath?"

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