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# 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 3.123

萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 3.123

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [3.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.3.123)

驢覻井（五更侵早起）井覻驢（更有夜行人）智容無外（天下衲僧跳不出）  
淨涵有餘（萬象莫能逃影質）肘後誰分印（天眼龍睛不可窺）  
家中不蓄書（真文不醋）機絲不掛梭頭事（花又不損）文彩縱橫意自殊（蜜又得成）

> "A donkey peering into a well;(Rising early at the fifth watch,)  
> A well peering at a donkey.(There is still a night traveler.)  
> Wisdom accommodates without an exterior;(Monks throughout the world cannot leap out.)  
> Purity contains with a surplus.(The myriad images cannot escape their reflections and forms.)  
> Who can share the seal behind the elbow?(The heavenly eye and dragon pupil cannot peer into it.)  
> In the house, no books are kept.(The true scripture is not vinegar.)  
> The loom's threads do not hang upon the work at the shuttle's head;(The flowers are not harmed,)  
> Yet the patterns run crisscross and the meaning is spontaneously distinct."(And the honey is produced.)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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