宏智禪師廣錄 2.22

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2.22

Case: One day, Nanquan saw the Eastern and Western Halls fighting over a cat. Nanquan then held it up and said, "If you can speak, it will not be cut." The assembly had no answer. Nanquan cut the cat into two pieces. Later, Nanquan brought up this previous encounter and asked Zhaozhou about it. Zhaozhou immediately took off his straw sandals, put them on his head, and walked out. Nanquan said, "Had you been there, you would have saved the cat." The verse says:

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