大慧普覺禪師語錄 3.48

3.48

Ascending the hall, [the Master] cited: "Jinfeng instructed the assembly, saying, 'Twenty years ago, this old monk had a grandmotherly heart; twenty years later, I have no grandmotherly heart.' At that time a monk came forward and asked, 'What was having a grandmotherly heart twenty years ago?' Jinfeng said, 'Asked about the ordinary, I answered with the ordinary; asked about the sacred, I answered with the sacred.' The monk said, 'What is having no grandmotherly heart twenty years later?' Jinfeng said, 'Asked about the ordinary, I do not answer with the ordinary; asked about the sacred, I do not answer with the sacred.'" The Master said, "Had Jingshan seen it at that time, I would simply have taken Grand Master Wuzu's [response] to counter him." Thereupon he raised his hand to make a wood pigeon's beak and said, "Gu-gu-gua."