大慧普覺禪師語錄 10.199

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10.199

The Twenty-Fourth Patriarch, the Venerable [Siṃha], because the king of Kashmir held a sword before him and asked, 'Has the Master attained the emptiness of the aggregates?' said, 'I have.' The king said, 'Having attained the emptiness of the aggregates, have you transcended birth and death?' He said, 'I have transcended them.' The king said, 'Having transcended birth and death, can you give me your head?' He said, 'The body is not my possession; how much less the head?' The king then cut it off; white milk gushed several feet high, and the king's arm fell off of itself. A verse says:

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