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# 如淨和尚語錄 1.69

如淨和尚語錄 1.69

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [1.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.1.69)

復舉。僧問趙州。如何是大道。州云。大道透長安。今則大家到者裡。大眾且道。理事相應。著得甚麼語。還委悉麼。四五千條花柳巷。二三萬座管絃樓。

> He also cited: A monk asked Zhaozhou, 'What is the Great Way?' Zhaozhou said, 'The Great Way reaches Chang'an.' Now everyone has arrived here; assembly, tell me: when principle and phenomena correspond, what word should be applied? Do you still understand thoroughly? Four or five thousand lanes of flowers and willows; twenty to thirty thousand pavilions of pipes and strings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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