宏智禪師廣錄 3.12

3.12

[The Master] cited the Hermit of Lianhua holding up his staff and instructing the assembly: "Why were the ancients unwilling to stay when they reached here?" The assembly was silent. He answered for them: "Because on that path they gained no strength." He added, "In the end, how is it?" He answered for them again: "Carrying the short staff horizontally across the shoulders, paying no regard to anyone, going straight into the thousands and myriads of peaks." The Master said, "Bearing it in, not bearing it out—an authentic mountain dweller. Master Si swallowed all the buddhas; Samantacakṣus could not see Samantabhadra. Tell me, where is the illness?" Suddenly grasping his staff, he struck once and said, "The official does not permit a needle, but privately carts and horses pass through."