大慧普覺禪師語錄 10.177

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10.177

Nanyuan entered the hall and said, 'Upon the red lump of flesh, steep precipices stand a thousand fathoms high.' At the time a monk asked, '"Upon the red lump of flesh, steep precipices stand a thousand fathoms high"—isn't that what the Venerable said?' Nanyuan said, 'It is.' The monk then overturned the Chan bench. Nanyuan said, 'Look at this blind fellow making a wild mess!' The monk hesitated; Nanyuan struck him and drove him out of the monastery. A verse says:

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