住沅州明山太和禪院
Residing at Ming Mountain Taihe Chan Monastery in Yuanzhou
上堂。僧問：「塞卻鼻孔，坐斷舌頭，作麼生出氣？」師云：「頂門上七縱八橫。」進云：「取用時如何？」師云：「腳跟下玉轉珠回。」僧便禮拜，師乃云：「芷水年年綠，明山歲歲青，廓然空劫外，何處有遷更？如是，則知天地同根，萬物一體，凡聖一源，古今一道，人人壁立萬仞，個個常光現前，不假修為，本來成現。雖然如是，即今椎鐘擂鼓，四眾雲臻，虎驟龍驤，當機𨁝跳，還有空劫已前消息也無？」良久，云：「但見落花隨水去，不知流出洞中春。」
The master ascended the hall. A monk asked, "If you block the nostrils and cut off the tongue, how can one still breathe?" The master said, "Seven verticals and eight horizontals on the crown of the head." The monk pressed further, "How about when it's put to use?" The master replied, "Under the heels, jade turns and pearls revolve." The monk then bowed in reverence.
The master then said, "The Zhi River is green year after year, Bright Mountain remains verdant season after season. Vast and empty beyond the kalpa's end—where is there any change? Thus, we know that heaven and earth share the same root, all things are one body, ordinary and sage arise from one source, past and present follow one path. Each person stands like a sheer cliff ten thousand ren high, everyone's constant light appears before them—no need for cultivation, it is originally complete and present. Even so, right now the bell is struck and the drum is beaten, the fourfold assembly gathers like clouds, tigers dash and dragons prance, the opportunity leaps forth—is there still a trace of what existed before the empty kalpa?"
After a long pause, he said, "We only see the falling petals carried away by the water, unaware that the spring within the cave flows outward."
上堂。一僧纔出，師云：「止止不須說，我法妙難思。」僧拂坐具，師便喝，僧亦喝，師便打。又一僧出云：「某甲禮拜是？不禮拜是？」師拈棒云：「山僧打即是？不打即是？」僧退後三步，進前三步，師云：「不是，不是。」乃云：「今朝衲子當機，一味棒喝齊施，不是強生枝節，要人翻轉面皮。眾中還有翻轉者麼？如無，且看木上座自翻轉去也。」擲拄杖，下座。
The master ascended the platform. A monk stepped forward. The master said, "Enough, enough, no need to speak. My Dharma is wondrous and beyond thought." The monk shook out his sitting mat. The master gave a shout. The monk also shouted. The master struck him.
Another monk came forward and asked, "Should I bow or not bow?" The master raised his staff and said, "Should this mountain monk strike or not strike?" The monk retreated three steps, then advanced three steps. The master said, "No, no."
He then said, "Today, when a monk presents himself, I only apply shouts and blows together. This isn't about creating complications—it's about making people turn their faces around. Is there anyone in the assembly who can turn their face around? If not, then watch this wooden staff turn itself around." He threw down his staff and descended from the seat.
為道徹胡居士披剃，上堂。「瞿曇昔日棄皇宮，道徹今朝辭俗業，時節古今雖不同，轉身要且路無別。大眾！還識轉身路也麼？」卓拄杖，云：「入此大解脫門，遊此大莊嚴路，目前萬別千差，直下一刀兩段，更無遮欄，更無回互，如杲日麗天，似明鏡當臺，羅籠不肯住，呼喚不回頭，直向千聖叢中下腳，孤峰頂上橫眠，何必七日斂念，相見別峰，樓閣門開，方參慈氏？如是氣宇，堪出三界之家，堪報四重之恩。雖然如是，且諸佛道場、祖師門下畢竟作麼生行履？」喝一喝，云：「將此身心奉塵剎，是則名為報佛恩。」
Master Weidao tonsured layman Hu, and ascended the hall. "In the past, Gautama abandoned the royal palace; today, Weidao leaves behind worldly affairs. Though the times and circumstances differ, the path of turning one's life around remains the same. Assembly! Do you recognize this path of turning around?" He struck his staff and said: "Enter this great gate of liberation, walk this great path of adornment. Before your eyes, a thousand distinctions and myriad differences—cut them straight through with one stroke, leaving no obstruction, no entanglement. Like the bright sun shining in the sky, like a clear mirror facing the world—it cannot be confined, it does not turn back when called. Step directly into the midst of a thousand sages, lie down across the solitary peak's summit. Why wait seven days to gather your thoughts, to meet on another peak, for the pavilion gates to open, before paying respects to Maitreya? With such a spirit, you are fit to leave the home of the three realms, fit to repay the fourfold kindness. Even so, within the buddhas' places of awakening and the ancestral masters' gates, how, after all, should one conduct oneself?" He gave a shout and said: "Offer this body and mind to the dust-like realms—this is what is called repaying the Buddha's kindness."