大慧普覺禪師語錄 2.32

2.32

Ascending the high seat: "A thousand explanations, ten thousand explanations; explanations of praise, explanations of slander; conventional explanations, colloquial explanations; explicit explanations, concealed explanations—all are mounds of broken tiles." Raising the staff, he said, "How does that compare to directly recognising this, not turned by birth and death, not shifted by cold and heat? If a patch-robed monk were to step forward and say, 'It is just a staff; what is the use of recognising it?' nowadays there is a sort of bogus Chan monk who mostly holds this kind of view." Throwing down the staff, he stepped down from the seat.