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大慧普覺禪師語錄 8.34

大慧普覺禪師語錄 8.34

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Classical Chinese

8.34

為圜悟和尚舉哀拈香,指真云:「這老和尚,一生多口攪擾叢林,近聞已在蜀中遷化了也,且喜天下太平。雲門昔年雖曾親近,要且不聞他說著箇元字脚,所以今日作一分供養,點一盞茶,燒此一炷香,熏他鼻孔,即非報德酬恩,只要辱他則箇。」召大眾云:「既不聞他說箇元字脚,又無恩德可報,何故特地作這一場笑具?還委悉麼?冤有頭,債有主,偶因失脚倒地,至今怨入骨髓。」遂燒香。

Conducting mourning and offering incense for Master Yuanwu, he pointed to the portrait and said, "This old monk spent his whole life blabbing and disturbing the monasteries. Recently I heard he passed away in Shu; we may rejoice that all under heaven is at peace. Although Yunmen in former years was close to him, after all I never heard him say a single sensible word. Therefore today I prepare a share of offerings, pour a cup of tea, and burn this stick of incense to smoke his nostrils. This is not to repay virtue or requite kindness, but simply to insult him." Calling to the assembly, he said, "Since I never heard him say a single sensible word and have no kindness or virtue to repay, why did I go out of my way to make this laughingstock? Do you understand? The enmity has a head; the debt has a master. By chance I slipped and fell to the ground, and to this day the grievance has penetrated to the marrow of my bones." Thereupon he burned incense.

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