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# 景德傳燈錄 9.40

景德傳燈錄 9.40

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [9.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.9.40)

河中公畿和尚。僧問。如何是道如何是禪。師云。有名非大道。是非俱不禪。欲識此中意。黃葉止啼錢。

> Upādhyāya Gongji of Hezhong. A monk asked, "What is the Way? What is Chan?" The master said: / "What has a name is not the Great Way; / Right and wrong are neither of them Chan. / If you wish to know the meaning within this: / Yellow leaves \[used as\] money to stop a child's crying."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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