萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 2.91

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The Master said: In his recorded sayings, Yunmen asked a monk, "When the ancient buddha intersects with the exposed pillar, which dynamic is it?" The monk was silent. Yunmen said, "If you ask me, I will tell you." The monk then asked. Yunmen said, "A single silk sash, thirty cash." The monk asked, "What is 'a single silk sash, thirty cash'?" Yunmen said, "Strike!" Answering on their behalf previously, he said, "Clouds rise on the South Mountain; rain falls on the North Mountain." In the Tang dynasty, Opening-of-the-Government Song Jing was skilled at the kettle drum song, in which there is the line: "Clouds rise on the South Mountain; rain falls on the North Mountain." Borrowing its use is like Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara bringing money to buy a sesame cake; when she lowers her hand, it turns out to be a steamed bun. It is completely like Muzhou's sharp dynamic: "The small cup falls to the ground; the saucer breaks into seven pieces." How could it allow explanation and conceptual understanding? Tiantong is able to explain where explanation cannot reach, and understand where conceptual understanding cannot attain. The verse says: