大慧普覺禪師語錄 4.25

4.25

Ascending the hall, a monk asked: "When raising one, one must not raise two; letting pass the first move, one falls into the second. The student comes forward and asks the Master to raise one." The Master said: "Six times six remains thirty-six as before." The monk continued: "I wonder, is this true and real or not?" The Master said: "Only this one matter is real; the other two are not true." The monk bowed. The Master then said: "'When raising one, one must not raise two; letting pass the first move, one falls into the second.' Just like the Zhenzhou turnip, I wonder if it can be placed in Lingzhao's basket or not? If you can utter a turning word right here, then yesterday someone came from Tiantai and went instead to Nanyue; if you cannot utter one, it is just as Xuefeng said."