如淨和尚語錄 1.84

1.84

上堂。綠竹半含籜。序品第一。新梢才出牆。正宗第二。雨洗娟娟淨。風吹細細香。流通第三。淨慈借詩說教。要與衲僧點眼。莫有眼開底麼。咄向者裡跳出草窠。其或未然。華亭舊有能言鴨。越國今無寫字鵝。

Ascending the hall: 'Green bamboos half-clothed in sheaths'—the first chapter, the Introduction. 'New shoots just emerging above the wall'—the second, the Main Body. 'Washed by rain, gracefully clean; blown by wind, subtly fragrant'—the third, the Transmission. Jingci borrows poetry to speak the teaching, wishing to open the eyes for patch-robed monks. Is there anyone whose eyes are open? Du! Leap out from the grassy nest right here! If perhaps it is not yet so: In Huating there was formerly a duck that could talk; in the state of Yue there is now no goose that writes characters.