大慧普覺禪師語錄 7.15

7.15

Instructing the assembly, [the Master] said: "Whether right or wrong, people do not recognize it; walking backward or forward, the heavens cannot fathom it. A person across the mountain sings the partridge song; mistaken for the eighteen beats of the barbarian reed pipe." He then raised his fly-whisk and said, "This is merely a yak-tail fly-whisk; do not treat it as right or wrong, backward or forward, for deliberation. How will you recognize it? How will you fathom it?" After a pause he said, "No one bids a price—give them three hundred blows." He struck the meditation couch once.