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# 景德傳燈錄 23.139

景德傳燈錄 23.139

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [23.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.23.139)

房州開山懷晝禪師。僧問。作何行業即得不違千聖。師曰。妙行無倫匹情玄體自殊。問有耳不臨清水洗。無心誰為白雲幽。師曰。無木掛千金。曰掛後如何。師曰。杳杳人難辨。

> Chan Master Huaizhou of Kaishan in Fangzhou. A monk asked, 'What actions and deeds will allow one not to violate the thousand sages?' The master said, 'Wondrous deeds have no peer; profound feeling naturally sets the substance apart.' \[The monk\] asked, 'Having ears, one does not approach clear water to wash them; having no mind, who makes the white clouds secluded?' The master said, 'Having no wood to hang a thousand pieces of gold.' \[The monk\] said, 'How is it after hanging it?' The master said, 'Faint and distant, hard for people to discern.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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