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# 大慧普覺禪師語錄 10.235

大慧普覺禪師語錄 10.235

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [10.235](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.10.235)

師室中常舉竹篦問學者曰：「喚作竹篦則觸，不喚作竹篦則背。」眾下語皆不契，因僧請益，復成五頌示之。頌云：

> In his chamber, the Master often held up a bamboo comb and asked students, "If you call it a bamboo comb, you make contact; if you do not call it a bamboo comb, you turn away." None of the assembly's responses hit the mark. Because a monk asked for further instruction, he composed another five verses to show them. The verses say:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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