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宏智禪師廣錄 2.133

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Head Monk Zizhao asked Fayan: "Venerable, upon opening your hall, whose lineage do you inherit?" / Fayan said: "Dizang." / Zhao said: "You let down our late master Changqing too severely!" / Fayan said: "I do not understand one turning word of Changqing." / Zhao said: "Why do you not ask?" / Fayan said: "'Solitarily exposed amid the myriad forms'—what does it mean?" / Zhao then held up his whisk. Fayan said: "This was learned at Changqing's place; what about your own affair, Head Monk?" / Zhao had no words. / Fayan said: "Just as 'solitarily exposed amid the myriad forms'—does it sweep aside the myriad forms, or not sweep aside the myriad forms?" / Zhao said: "It does not sweep them aside." / Fayan said: "There are two." / The attendants on the left and right all said: "It sweeps aside the myriad forms." / Fayan said: "'Solitarily exposed amid the myriad forms'!" / The verse says:

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