無門關 1.2

1.2

To say there is no gate: all the people of the great earth may enter. To say there is a gate: the reverend master has no share. In the first place, forcibly adding a few footnotes is very much like putting a bamboo hat on top of a bamboo hat. To insist that Old Xi praise it is again like squeezing juice from dry bamboo. Bearing these blustering volumes, they do not need Old Xi's single toss. With a single toss, let not a single drop fall into rivers and lakes—even a thousand-league black steed could not catch up. On the last day of the seventh month, the first year of Shaoding [1228]. Written by Chen Kui, Xi'an.