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| Master Linji |
a) Long-ago asked what was the idea of the master patriarch from the West. The master said: "Give me your board Dhyana." Long ago passed the teacher's board Dhyana. The master received it and beat him. Long ago said, "For what is to fight as long as you want, but in short, as the master patriarch, no idea!"
b) Long-ya Then went to Ts'ui-wei and asked him what was the idea of the coming of the West of the master patriarch. Ts'ui-wei said: "Pass me a pillow." Long ago passed him a cushion. Ts'ui-wei took him and beat him. Long ago said, "For what is to fight as long as you want, but in short, as the master patriarch, no idea!"
c) Later, when Long ago was installed as senior in a monastery, there was a monk who entered his room and asked additional instruction, saying: "From the time you Peregrine, Reverend, when you visit these two elders, have you accepted?" Long ago said: "With regard to approving them, I have deeply accepted, but in short, as the master patriarch, no idea!"
Chapter 31 of Analects of Lin-chi.
Translation from Chinese by Paul Demieville.
Editions Fayard, 1972.
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