萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.66

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Case: Head Monk Zizhao asked Fayan, 'When the Venerable opened the hall, whose lineage did you inherit?' (Had I known today it would become meddling in leisure, I'd regret having used good intentions back then.) Fayan said, 'Dizang's.' (Gratitude returns to its proper ground.) Zhao said, 'You greatly fail our late master Changqing!' (The elbow does not bend outward.) Fayan said, 'I do not understand one turning word of Changqing.' (Feigning ignorance.) Zhao said, 'Why don't you ask?' (Luring the wolf into the house to defecate.) Fayan said, '"Solitarily revealing the body amidst the ten thousand forms"—what does it mean?' (Revealed face to face.) Zhao then raised his whisk. (A double case.) Fayan said, 'This is learned at Changqing's place; what is it from your own part, Head Monk?' (Splitting the notch and seizing the nest.) Zhao was speechless. (He can only make a single leap.) Fayan said, 'Just as in "Solitarily revealing the body amidst the ten thousand forms"—does this cast aside the ten thousand forms, or does it not cast aside the ten thousand forms?' (Instead, the calabash is wound around backwards by the vine.) Zhao said, 'It does not cast them aside.' (The conversation is split into two halves.) Fayan said, 'Two!' (Difficult to deceive the clear-eyed.) The attendants to the left and right all said, 'It casts aside the ten thousand forms!' (Even more unbearable.) Fayan said, '"Solitarily revealing the body amidst the ten thousand forms"—what about that?!' (Two rolls of the dice in one match.)