[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [虛堂和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000) › 1.55 # 虛堂和尚語錄 1.55 虛堂和尚語錄 1.55 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.55) 上堂，舉：「臨際令侍者傳語德山，侍云：『德山要打人。』際云：『汝但去，待伊拈棒，接住與一送，管取不打爾。』侍依所教，果然不打。歸舉似臨際，際云：『我從來疑著者漢。』」師云：「盡謂：『德山只解淺水張鱗，不能深潭下釣。』殊不知，臨際父子被德山埋在荒草堆頭，至今擡身不起。」 > Ascending the hall, he brought up \[the following\]: "Linji sent his attendant to deliver a message to Deshan. The attendant said, 'Deshan likes to strike people.' Linji said, 'Just go. Wait until he takes up his staff, seize it, and give him a shove; I guarantee he will not strike you.' The attendant followed instructions, and indeed Deshan did not strike him. Returning, he related this to Linji. Linji said, 'I have always suspected this fellow.'" The master said: "Everyone says: 'Deshan only knows how to spread his scales in shallow water, and cannot cast a line in a deep pool.' Little do they know that Linji and his son were buried by Deshan in a heap of wild grass, and to this day they cannot lift themselves up." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.54) - [Next: 1.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.56) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000~en-mt.1.55) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.1.55) · Pramāṇa