宏智禪師廣錄 2.74

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2.74

Luopu visited Jiashan. Without bowing, he stood directly before him. Shan said, "A chicken roosting in a phoenix's nest is not of the same kind. Get out!" Pu said, "Hasting after your wind from afar, I beg the master to receive me." Shan said, "Before my eyes there is no ācārya; here there is no old monk." Pu then shouted. Shan said, "Stop, stop! Do not be hasty and careless. Clouds and moon are the same; valleys and mountains are distinct. Cutting off the tongues of everyone under heaven is not absent—how will you make a tongueless person understand words?" Pu was speechless. Shan then struck him. From then on, Pu submitted in his heart. The ode says:

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