大慧普覺禪師語錄 3.28

3.28

Ascending the hall, he cited: "One day, while Linji was standing in attendance beside Deshan, Deshan looked back and said to him, 'This old monk is weary today.' Linji said, 'What is this old fellow talking in his sleep for?' Deshan made to take up his stick, and Linji promptly overturned the rope chair. Yunfeng said: 'Two masters of the craft: one pressing and one pushing down, slightly revealing the style and standard—much like holding hands to climb a high mountain. Although this is so, they could not avoid the smirk of bystanders.'" The Master said: "Old man Yunfeng's criticism like that is very much like a man from Puzhou. If Jingshan had seen them, he would have tied them into a bundle and sent them into the river. Why? Have you not heard it said: 'When the clam and the snipe grapple with each other, both fall into the fisherman's hands'?"