佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 1.13

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[2] Case: Zhaozhou addressed the assembly, saying, ("What is this old fellow doing? Don't tangle in these vines!") "The Supreme Way is not difficult—("It is neither difficult nor easy.") it only dislikes picking and choosing. ("What is before your eyes? The Third Ancestor is still here.") As soon as there are words and language, they are picking and choosing, or they are clarity. ("Two heads and three faces. Don't show off so much. When fish move the water gets murky; when birds fly feathers drop.") This old monk is not within clarity. ("The thief's body has already been exposed. Where is this old fellow going?") Do you still cherish and protect [it], or not?" ("A defeat! Yet there are one or two [who can].") At the time, a monk asked, "Since you are not within clarity, what do you cherish and protect?" ("A fine pressuring. His tongue sticks to his palate.") Zhaozhou said, "I do not know either." ("Pressuring this old fellow to death! Retreating three thousand miles!") The monk said, "Since the venerable monk does not know, why do you say you are not within clarity?" ("Look at where he is running off to. Chasing him right up a tree!") Zhaozhou said, "It is enough to ask about the matter. Make your prostrations and withdraw." ("Good thing he has this move. This old thief!")