大慧普覺禪師語錄 1.37

1.37

Ascending the hall, he took up his staff, struck it once, and addressed the great assembly, saying, "Do you still hear?" Holding it up again, he said, "Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva has arrived! On the tip of Jingshan's staff, his mouth mutters, saying: 'All conditioned things are impermanent; this is the dharma of arising and ceasing. Arising and ceasing having ceased, quiescent extinction manifests.' Picking up Sumeru on the palm, swinging on a swing inside the eye of a needle—even if you were to see through it thoroughly like this, it is still off from the staff by one hundred and eight thousand [li]. Tell me: what is extraordinary about Jingshan's staff?" Throwing it down, he said, "It is not worth half a coin."