佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 1.7

1.7

The pointer says: Seeing smoke beyond the mountain, one already knows there is fire; seeing horns beyond the wall, one immediately knows there is an ox. Deducing three from one, discerning the dynamic function down to the grain: this is the everyday tea and meal of patch-robed monks. As for cutting off the myriad streams, surging in the east and sinking in the west, moving with or against, perpendicular or horizontal, giving and taking with complete freedom—at just such a time, tell me: whose realm of practice is this? Look at Xuedou's entangling vines.