佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 7.29

7.29

"After Huang Chao passed through, he once retrieved the sword; the great laughter must still be known by an adept." Xuedou then versified this monk and Yantou's great laughter. This slight point is something no one in the world can grope out. Tell me, what was he laughing at? Only an adept can know. In this laughter, there is the provisional and the real, illumination and function, killing and giving life. "Thirty blows of mountain rattan are, for the moment, a lenient pardon" versifies that this monk later came before Xuefeng. This monk was crude and reckless as before; Xuefeng then acted according to the authentic imperative, struck him thirty blows, and drove him out. And tell me, why was it like this? If you wish to understand these words thoroughly: to gain an advantage is to lose an advantage.