[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003) › 10.27 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 10.27 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 10.27 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.27) 趙州示此三轉語了。末後却云。真佛屋裏坐。這一句忒殺郎當。他古人出一隻眼。垂手接人。略借此語。通箇消息。要為人。爾若一向正令全提。法堂前草深一丈。雪竇嫌他末後一句漏逗。所以削去。只頌三句。泥佛若渡水。則爛却了也。金佛若渡鑪中。則鎔却了也。木佛若渡火。便燒却了也。有什麼難會。雪竇一百則頌古。計較葛藤。唯此三頌直下有衲僧氣息。只是這頌也不妨難會。爾若透得此三頌。便許爾罷參。 > After Zhaozhou demonstrated these three turning phrases, at the very end he went on to say, "The true Buddha sits inside the house." This single phrase was terribly unkempt. The ancient opened a single eye and let down his hands to receive people, briefly borrowing these words to convey a message and help others. If you completely uphold the authentic imperative all the way through, the grass in front of the Dharma hall would be ten feet deep. Xuedou disliked the leakiness and clumsiness of his final phrase, so he pared it away and only versified the three phrases. If a clay Buddha crosses water, it dissolves; if a golden Buddha crosses into a furnace, it melts; if a wooden Buddha crosses fire, it burns up. What is difficult to understand? Among Xuedou's one hundred verse eulogies on antiquity with their calculated entangling vines, only these three verses directly have the breath of a patch-robed monk. Yet these verses are also quite difficult to understand. If you can penetrate these three verses, I will allow you to end your study. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.26) - [Next: 10.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.28) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.10.27) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.27) · Pramāṇa