大慧普覺禪師語錄 7.30

7.30

Instructing the assembly, he brought up the following: "Venerable Baiyun Xiang asked a monk, 'Without destroying conventional designations, how do you speak of the true characteristic?' The monk said, 'This is a chair.' Baiyun pushed it with his hand and said, 'Bring the shoe-bag here.' The monk had no reply. Baiyun said, 'This phony fellow!' Yunmen heard this and said, 'It had to be Elder Brother Xiang to pull it off.'"
The Master said, "Yunmen supports the strong and does not support the weak, but loving one's child, one does not notice their ugliness. If that monk at that time had been a real fellow, waiting for him to say 'Bring the shoe-bag here,' he would have overturned the meditation seat. Even if Baiyun had teeth like a forest of swords and a mouth like a basin of blood, he could not have explained his way out."