宏智禪師廣錄 2.80

2.80

舉臨際示眾云。有一無位真人。常在汝等面門出入。初心未證據者看看。時有僧問。如何是無位真人。際下禪床擒住。者僧擬議。際托開云。無位真人。是什麼乾屎橛。頌曰。

Linji instructed the assembly, saying, "There is a true person without rank, constantly entering and exiting through the gateways of your faces. Those of initial commitment who have not yet verified it, look, look!" At that time a monk asked, "What is the true person without rank?" Ji stepped down from the meditation platform and seized him. The monk hesitated. Ji pushed him away and said, "The true person without rank—what kind of dried dung scraper is it!" The ode says: