佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 3.35

3.35

Case 28: Nanquan visited Master Niepan of Baizhang. Baizhang asked: 'From antiquity down, among all the sages, is there still a Dharma that has not been spoken for people?' (The Venerable should know. / Standing wall-like ten thousand fathoms high. / Do you feel your teeth falling out?) / Nanquan said: 'There is.' (Fallen into the weeds. / What is Meng the Eighth doing? / So there is such a thing.) / Baizhang said: 'What is the Dharma that has not been spoken for people?' (See what he does. / See him flustered in hand and foot. / Going along with the mistake. / Just test him with a question.) / Nanquan said: 'It is not mind, it is not Buddha, it is not things.' (Indeed, he suffered a defeat. / Indeed, many blunders.) / Baizhang said: 'You have spoken it.' (Do not break it down for him. / Let him be mistaken for a lifetime. / You shouldn't have spoken to him like that.) / Nanquan said: 'I am only thus; how is it with the Master?' (Fortunately there is a place to turn around. / If given long, then long; if given short, then short. / Manifesting long, it complies.) / Baizhang said: 'I am not a great kalyāṇamitra either; how would I know whether there is speaking or no speaking?' (See him flustered in hand and foot. / Hiding his body while revealing his shadow. / Ten parts toward death. / Thorns in the soft mud. / Like that, is it? / Cheating me!) / Nanquan said: 'I do not understand.' (Better to be like this. / Luckily he does not understand; / if he understood, I'd break your head. / Luckily this fellow is only thus.) / Baizhang said: 'I have spoken all too much for you.' (Adding frost to snow. / Why a dragon's head and a snake's tail?).