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# 無門關 1.140

無門關 1.140

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [1.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2005.1.140)

無門曰。六祖可謂。是事出急家。老婆心切。譬如新荔支剝了殼。去了核送在爾口裏。只要爾嚥一嚥。

> Wumen said: "The Sixth Patriarch can be said to have acted out of an emergency in his household, with an earnest grandmotherly mind. It is like peeling the shell from a fresh lychee, removing the pit, and putting it into your mouth, needing only for you to swallow it once."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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