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# 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 6.8

佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 6.8

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.6.8)

孤危不立道方高（須是到這田地始得。言猶在耳。還他本分草料）入海還須釣巨鼇（坐斷要津不通凡聖。蝦蜆螺蚌不足問。大丈夫漢。不可兩兩三三）  
堪笑同時灌溪老（也有恁麼人曾恁麼來。也有恁麼用機關底手脚）  
解云劈箭亦徒勞（猶較半月程。似則似是則未是）

> "When the solitary and precipitous is not established, the Way is truly lofty; / Entering the sea, one must angle for the giant turtle. / Laughable is his contemporary, old Guanxi, / Whose boast of 'splitting the arrow' was also in vain."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.6.8) — English, machine translation

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