[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) › 5.37 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 5.37 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 5.37 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.5.37) 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.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.5.36) - [Next: 5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.5.38) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.5.37) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.5.37) · Pramāṇa