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# 虛堂和尚語錄 3.50

虛堂和尚語錄 3.50

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [3.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.3.50)

復舉：「朱行軍一日入南際寺，齋僧行香次，以手爐搖曳云：『直下是，直下是。』時有僧云：『直下是箇甚麼？』行軍便喝，僧云：『行軍是佛法中人，問著便惡發。』行軍云：『爾作惡發會那。』僧便喝，行軍亦喝云：『鉤在不疑之地。』復喚左右認取者僧著。」師云：「人言王母池邊有一株樹，名曰蟠桃，三千年開花，三千年結果，更待三千年方纔成熟。且道，與行軍有相見分麼？」卓主丈：「參。」

> He further cited: "One day, Military Commissioner Zhu went to Nanjisi. While offering a meal to the monks and distributing incense, he waved his hand incense-burner and said: 'Right here it is! Right here it is!' At that time, a monk said: 'Right here is what?' The commissioner then shouted. The monk said: 'The commissioner is a man of the Buddha-dharma; why do you get angry when questioned?' The commissioner said: 'You take this as getting angry, do you?' The monk then shouted. The commissioner also shouted, saying: 'The hook is cast in a place without doubt.' He then called his attendants to take note of this monk." The Master said: "People say beside the Queen Mother's pool there is a tree named the coiled peach; it flowers in three thousand years, bears fruit in three thousand years, and must wait yet another three thousand years before it ripens. Tell me, does it have any meeting with the commissioner?" He struck with his staff: "Examine!"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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