萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.32

4.32

Continuously, merit and fault— (Only excepting one who awakens suddenly.) / Stiffly bound by cause and effect; (Even phenomena do not accord.) / Outside the mirror, frantically running, Yajñadatta! (Smoke arises beneath the feet.) / The head of the staff strikes down the Broken Stove; (Shattered into a hundred pieces.) / The stove breaks down— (From where does numinous power arise? Whence does sanctity arrive?) / He comes to offer congratulations: (Humbly prostrating before the fallen stove.) / But turns and says, 'All along you have failed me!' (Why didn't you say so earlier?)