佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 8.4

8.4

"The venerable monk also must shut them tight"—within this single phrase, Xuedou pressed once, saying: "Look upon the strategy on the dragon-snake battle line." Like two battle arrays lined up, bursting in and bursting out, moving freely in all directions, he has the skill of a fighting general, a person of great strategy. With a single horse and a single spear, upon the dragon-snake battle line, he appears and disappears at will; how could you surround him? If not for such a person, how could one know there is such strategy? These three verse eulogies of Xuedou all describe the words from within in this manner. It is very much like General Li Guang's divine arrow: "Ten thousand li at the edge of the sky, a single osprey flies"—one arrow definitely brings down one vulture, never letting it escape. Xuedou eulogized the place of Baizhang's question as being like an osprey, and the place of Wufeng's answer as being like an arrow. This mountain monk has been exclusively praising Wufeng, without realizing that his whole body has entered the mud and water.