佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 8.18

8.18

"Within the shadows of white clouds, laughing with a great guffaw." Changqing said, "Celebrating and praising on the occasion of a feast." Xuedou said, "Holding it with both hands, he brings it and hands it over to them." Tell me: is he merely giving them rice to eat, or is there something extraordinary? If in this place you know the reality, then you are a child of the golden-haired lion. If one is a child of the golden-haired lion, there is no need for Jinniu to bring the rice bucket, dance, and laugh loudly; directly from three thousand leagues away, one already knows his flaw. An ancient said, "Discernment precedes dynamic function; it does not take a single pinch." Therefore, patch-robed monks normally must act outside the pattern before they can be called proper lineage masters. If you only rely on verbal expressions, you will inevitably leak.