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# 大慧普覺禪師語錄 10.63

大慧普覺禪師語錄 10.63

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [10.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.10.63)

趙州一日在佛殿上，見文遠禮佛，以拄杖打一下，遠云：「禮佛也是好事。」州云：「好事不如無。」頌云：

> One day Zhaozhou was in the Buddha hall and saw Wenyuan bowing to the Buddha. He struck him once with his staff. Wenyuan said, "Bowing to the Buddha is also a good thing." Zhaozhou said, "A good thing is not as good as nothing." His verse says:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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