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# 人天眼目 2.199

English (machine translation) 2.199

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### [2.199](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2006~en-mt.2.199)

He asked, "What is the hair-severing sword?"  
Baling said, "Branch after branch of coral propping up the moon."  
He asked, "Are the ancestral intention and the doctrinal intention the same or different?"  
Baling said, "When chickens are cold, they perch on the loom; when ducks are cold, they plunge into the water."  
(When Yunmen heard these words, he said, "In the future on my memorial day, merely citing these three turning phrases will be ample offering to this old monk.")

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