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# 大慧普覺禪師語錄 8.45

大慧普覺禪師語錄 8.45

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [8.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.8.45)

示眾，舉：「古德云：『佛法也大有，只是舌頭短。』」師云：「向道莫行山下路，果聞猿叫斷腸聲。」

> Instructing the assembly, he brought up \[the following\]: "An ancient worthy said, 'There is indeed plenty of the Buddhadharma, but the tongue is short.'" The Master said, "'I warned you not to take the road beneath the mountain; / in the end you heard the gibbon's cry that breaks the heart.'"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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