萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 1.77

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The Master said: Completely encompassing the ten epithets, uniquely honored in appearing in the world, shaking his eyebrows, raising high his nostrils. Lecture halls call it "ascending the seat"; Chan groves name it "entering the hall." Before you all arrived at the Dharma Hall, before Wansong had come out of the abbot's quarters—if you comprehended it at that time, you were already lagging behind by three or four steps. Have you not seen Xuedou say: "If there were a saindhava guest in the assembly, why would Mañjuśrī need to strike a single blow with the gavel?" Checking into it thoroughly: Xuedou ought not to have asked for salt, and how could Wansong bear to present a horse? Even if the teacher of the seven buddhas said, "Clearly observe the Dharma of the Dharma King; the Dharma of the Dharma King is like this," one must pull out the nails from his eyes and extract the wedges behind his skull before he has it. Down to the present day, when concluding the opening of the hall, striking the gavel and saying, "Clearly observe the Dharma of the Dharma King; the Dharma of the Dharma King is like this," cites this precedent. The Bhagavān immediately went down from the seat—this at least rescues one half. The other half is handed over to Tiantong. The verse says: