如淨和尚語錄 2.19

2.19

謝知事齋首座秉拂。上堂。鐵酸豏金剛圈。塞斷咽喉。拽脫鼻孔。天童立地有分。衲僧乞命無門。且道。如何堪與瞿曇作子孫。

Ascending the hall to thank the monastic officers for the meal and the head monk for wielding the whisk: "An iron sour-pastry, a vajra ring: choking the throat, tearing off the nostrils. Tiantong has his footing; patch-robed monks have no doorway to beg for their lives. But tell me, how is it? Capable of acting as descendants of Gautama."