圓悟佛果禪師語錄 18.27

18.27

He cited: "Deshan instructed the assembly at an informal gathering, saying: 'Tonight this old monk will not answer questions. Anyone who asks a question gets thirty blows of the staff.' At that time, a monk came forward and bowed. Deshan struck him at once. The monk said, 'I have not even asked a question; why do you strike me?' Deshan said, 'Where are you from?' The monk said, 'A man of Silla.' Deshan said, 'Before you even stepped over the ship's gunwale, you deserved thirty blows.' Fayan said, 'Great or small, Deshan severed his talk into two pieces.' Yuanming said, 'Great or small, Deshan had a dragon's head and a snake's tail.' Xuedou said, 'Deshan held the authority outside the borders; he had the sword of not hesitating when one ought to sever, which brings about no disorder. If you want to know that monk from Silla, he was merely a blind fellow who collided with an exposed pillar.'"