佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.23

9.23

Seeing it and not taking it, (A miss; already a thousand, ten thousand miles away.) / Pondering it, a thousand miles off. (Regretting not having been careful from the start. Heavens, heavens!) / What a fine striped beast! (Ācārya, take it away yourself. How lamentable that he did not yet know how to use it.) / Its claws and teeth are not yet complete. (I only fear that its application is not clear. Wait until the claws and teeth are complete to tell you.) / Do you not see: under Mount Daxiong, they suddenly meet; (Follow the rules where there are rules; follow precedent where there are none.) / Clear and distinct, sound and light both shake the earth. (This tiger went off like that. Still somewhat better. How many men are true heroes?) / Has the great man seen it or not? (Grandmotherly heart is eager. If you know how to open your eyes, you live together and die together. Xuedou entangles in vines.) / Taking hold of the tiger's tail, stroking the tiger's whiskers! (Suddenly bursting forth, how to take hold? Gathering the patch-robed monks of the world here. If someone suddenly steps forward, press him immediately. If there is no gathering and releasing, thirty blows of the staff to let you turn around and breathe. Shouting and striking, he says, 'Why didn't you say: "You old thief!"?')