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A monk asked Deshan, "What was the meaning of the ancient master cutting the cat?" Deshan drove him away with his staff and called out, "Do you understand?" The monk said, "I don't understand." Deshan said, "Even with this old woman's kindness, you still don't understand?" (僧問德山古人斬貓意旨如何山以拄杖趁卻喚云會麼僧曰不會山曰我恁麼老婆還不會)
Sayings of the Joyless Elder (無趣老人語錄)
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A monk asked Deshan, "What was the meaning of the ancient master cutting the cat?" Deshan drove him away with his staff and called out, "Do you understand?" The monk said, "I don't understand." Deshan said, "Even with this old woman's kindness, you still don't understand?" (僧問德山古人斬貓意旨如何山以拄杖趁卻喚云會麼僧曰不會山曰我恁麼老婆還不會)
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Sayings of the Joyless Elder
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無趣老人語錄
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僧問德山：「古人斬貓，意旨如何？」山以拄杖趁卻，喚云：「會麼？」僧曰：「不會。」山曰：「我恁麼老婆，還不會？」
斬貓只為切心過，以杖祛之太老婆；再四喚歸歸不得，這般漆桶待如何？
德山因疾不起僧問還有不病者麼山曰有僧云如何是不病者山曰阿耶阿耶
德山上堂問即有過不問即乖有僧禮拜山便打僧云某甲纔拜為甚麼便打山曰待汝開口堪作什麼
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