無門關 1.39

1.39

俱胝和尚。凡有詰問。唯舉一指。後有童子。因外人問。和尚說何法要。童子亦竪指頭。胝聞。遂以刃斷其指。童子負痛號哭而去。胝復召之。童子迴首。胝却竪起指。童子忽然領悟。胝將順世。謂眾曰。吾得天龍一指頭禪。一生受用不盡。言訖示滅。

Whenever Upādhyāya Juzhi was questioned, he would only raise one finger. Later, there was an attendant boy. When an outsider asked, "What Dharma essential does the upādhyāya teach?", the boy also raised his finger. When Juzhi heard of this, he sliced off the boy's finger with a blade. The boy, bearing the pain, cried out and ran away. Juzhi called after him again; the boy turned his head, and Juzhi then raised his finger. The boy suddenly had an awakening. When Juzhi was about to pass away, he said to the assembly: "I obtained Tianlong's one-finger Chan, and have used it throughout my life without exhausting it." Having finished speaking, he manifested extinction.