佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 6.46

6.46

[Case 60] Case: Yunmen showed his staff to the assembly and said:
(Transforming and instructing depends on the moment. The sword that kills people, the sword that gives life to people. He has swapped your eyes.)
"The staff has transformed into a dragon
(What need is there for circumlocution? What use is transforming it into something?)
and swallowed up heaven and earth.
(The lives of the patch-robed monks of the realm do not remain. Does it still obstruct your throat? Ācārya, where will you settle your body and establish your life?)
Where do the mountains, rivers, and great earth come from?"
(The ten directions have no walls, and the four sides have no gates either. East, west, south, north, the four intermediate directions, above and below—how can one deal with this?)