大慧普覺禪師語錄 2.24

2.24

Ascending the hall: "An ancient said, 'Understand the One, and the ten thousand affairs are finished.' Today is the first day of the ninth month; how do all of you understand it?" Suddenly taking up his staff, he said, "You must not call it a staff, and then you had better just understand it. Since it is not called a staff, how do you understand it?" Throwing it down, he said, "'Miss it by a hair's breadth, and you lose it by a thousand miles.'"