圓悟佛果禪師語錄 17.38
English (machine translation) 17.38
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17.38
[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 If someone were to ask this mountain monk, I would simply say to him: 'Withdrawn.'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?"
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