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佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 5.37

佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 5.37

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Classical Chinese

5.37

來問若成風(箭不虛發偶爾成文。不妨要妙)應機非善巧(弄泥團漢有什麼限。方木逗圓孔。不妨撞著作家)
堪悲獨眼龍(只具一雙眼。只得一橛)
曾未呈牙爪(也無牙爪可呈。說什麼牙爪。也不得欺他)牙爪開(爾還見麼。雪竇却較些子。若有恁麼手脚踏倒茶爐)
生雲雷(盡大地人一時喫棒。天下衲僧無著身處。旱天霹靂)
逆水之波經幾回(七十二棒翻成一百五十)

"The incoming question was like the wind; (An arrow not shot in vain; accidentally forming a pattern. Indisputably essential and subtle.)
Responding to the dynamic occasion, he lacked skillful means. (A fellow handling mud balls—what limit is there? A square peg in a round hole. Undeniably bumping into a master.)
Pitiable is the One-Eyed Dragon, (Possessing only a pair of eyes. He gets only a single peg.)
Who never revealed his fangs and claws. (He had no fangs and claws to reveal. What fangs and claws are there to speak of? Yet you cannot belittle him either.)
Once the fangs and claws unfold, (Do you see yet? Xuedou is somewhat better. If he had such moves, he would have kicked over the tea brazier.)
Clouds and thunder are born! (Everyone in the whole great earth takes a blow of the staff at once. Patch-robed monks of the realm have nowhere to set their bodies. A thunderclap in a dry sky!)
How many times has he weathered waves against the current?" (Seventy-two blows turn into a hundred and fifty.)

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