大慧普覺禪師語錄 7.18

7.18

Instructing the assembly, [the Master] said: "Skillful at rolling up and unrolling within a forest of thorns, furthermore reaching under the black dragon's chin to explore for the miraculous pearl, capturing alive the South Mountain pit-viper, and riding high spirits to still come and stroke the tiger's whiskers. Such style and demeanor are not yet that of an adept; if you arrive at Yunmen, there is no need to bring them out. You must enter the forest without stirring the grass, enter the water without stirring the waves, sit devising plans within the command tent, and decide victory a thousand miles away—only then will there be a small degree of accord. Right at such a time, how do you speak a phrase that does not harm the meaning of things?" After a pause he said, "Just bring rice to a mindless bowl; someone of their own accord will carry the broken-legged pot."