佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.20

9.20

The pointer says: Holding the world fast without leaking a fine hair, causing the people of the entire earth to lose their sharp edges and tie up their tongues—this is the patch-robed monk's authentic imperative. Emitting light from the crown of the head to illuminate and shatter the four worlds—this is the patch-robed monk's diamond eyes. Turning iron into gold, turning gold into iron, suddenly capturing, suddenly releasing—this is the patch-robed monk's staff. Sitting cut off the tongues of everyone under heaven, so that there is no place to let out breath, retreating three thousand miles—this is the patch-robed monk's bearing. Now tell me, when none of this is so at all, after all what kind of person is it? Look at the following case: