萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.43

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The Master said: "Guishan called himself a water buffalo, and regarded Iron Grinder as a cow. Giving names and bestowing titles—this is the meeting of adepts. Although she was a nun, she had long studied under Guishan and had built a hermitage ten li away from the mountain. One day she went to study under Zihu. Hu asked, 'Could you be Iron Grinder Liu?' Grinder said, 'I dare not [presume].' Hu said, 'Do you turn to the left or turn to the right?' Grinder said, 'Do not be upside-down, Venerable.' Hu thereupon struck her. Look at her with Guishan: when letting go, both let go; when gathering in, both gather in. Foguo called them 'body-separating phrases'—the meaning penetrates while the words are separated. Do you wish to know how meaning and phrase both arrive together? Look further at Tiantong's verse that directly embodies it. The verse says:"