佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 7.28

7.28

"After Huang Chao passed through, he once retrieved the sword;"
(What use is an uncouth fellow like Meng Balang? It is merely a tin knife.)
"The great laughter must still be known by an adept."
(One son truly grasps it; how many could there be? If it were not for him, how could he attain freedom?)
"Thirty blows of mountain rattan are, for the moment, a lenient pardon;"
(Born on the same branch, dying on the same branch. Three thousand in the morning, eight hundred in the evening. When someone dies in the eastern house, the western house joins in mourning. Yet he revives him.)
"To gain an advantage is to lose an advantage."
(Settling the case based on the confession. Regretting not being cautious at the beginning. There is also a little bit.)