佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 2.18

2.18

An exposition facing one (Lively and flapping. The words are still in the ears. Truly solitary and towering.) / Is exceedingly solitary and absolute. (A bystander has a share. Far more than standing like a wall of a thousand fathoms! How could there be such a thing?) / / Driving the wedge again into an iron hammer without a hole. (Misunderstanding famous phrases! That old fellow Yunmen is also washing dirt clods in the mud. Xuedou is also embellishing.) / / Laughing ha-ha beneath the jambu tree: (Four prefectures and eight counties have never seen this fellow! Only fellow travelers can know. How many people can know?) / / Last night, the black dragon's horn snapped. (Not only was the black dragon's horn snapped. Who saw it come about? Is there any proof? Mute!) / Distinctive, distinctive! (Well-deserved praise. It takes Xuedou to manage it. What is distinctive about it?) / / The old man of Shaoyang obtained one half of the piece. (Where is it? There is still another half piece—entrusted to whom? Deshan and Linji would also have to fall back three thousand [li]. What about that other half piece? He then strikes!)