大慧普覺禪師語錄 3.16

3.16

Ascending the high seat, he cited: "A monk asked Zhaozhou: 'I, a student, have newly entered the monastery; I beg the Master for instruction.' Zhou said: 'Have you eaten your porridge yet?' The monk said: 'I have eaten the porridge.' Zhou said: 'Go wash your bowl.' The monk suddenly had a great awakening." The Master said: "Was it really genuine or not? Yunmen said: 'Tell me, was there instruction or was there no instruction? If you say there was, what did he say to him? If you say there was not, why did this monk awaken?'" The Master said again: "If Zhaozhou and this monk had not met Yunmen, they would have suffered injustice their whole lives. Nowadays in various quarters there is a type of blind fellow who generally understands it all as mere talk of washing bowls."