萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 5.75

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The Master said: Chan Master Dongshan Chu's verse on 'Pointing Out the Piercing Function' says, 'Dongshan is desolate, with not a thing to have; / Flavorless talk blocks people's mouths. / Even with a thousand kinds of delicacies, / How can you help it if a sated person cares nothing for them?' If one has the appearance of a hungry ghost, ravenously devouring, it is like biting horizontally and gnawing vertically, as a dog chews on a dry bone. Only when he chews until his tongue is broken and flings it aside will he meet Yunmen. After they meet, how is it? Each has skin on his face three inches thick.