圓悟佛果禪師語錄 17.4

17.4

[The Master] cited: "Senior Monk Fu of Taiyuan asked Gushan, 'Before parents gave birth to you, where were the nostrils?' Shan said, 'Born right now, where are the nostrils?' Fu did not approve and said, 'You ask me, and I will tell you.' Gushan asked, 'Before parents gave birth to you, where were the nostrils?' Fu merely waved his fan." The Master said, "An extraordinary condition must be stirred up with what is extraordinary; an exceptionally wondrous great matter must be held up with what is exceptionally wondrous. Although hidden and revealed are not different, unfortunately skill and clumsiness differ. If someone asks Chongning, 'Before parents gave birth to you, where were the nostrils?' [I will] just slap him right across the mouth."