曹洞宗
問：莫行心處路，因甚猶有一人從正中來？
Question: Do not walk the path of the mind—why is it that there is still someone coming from the very center?
心徑苔生舉步慵，肯因閒寂滯高蹤。蒼龍不向澄潭臥，飛劈青霄雷雨從。
問：不掛本來衣，因甚娘生褲至今脫不下？
Question: "If one does not wear the original robe, why is it that the trousers born of a mother have still not been taken off to this day?"
赤體堂堂不掛絲，己靈偏重太平癡。直須更淬莫邪利，削盡娘生舊面皮。
問：何須正恁麼，因甚道直須恁麼始契如如？
Question: Why must one be exactly thus? Why is it said that one must be directly thus to accord with Thusness?
應物呈形井覷驢，私緣蕩盡我如渠。休貪勛業標麟閣，名字宜從左脅書。
Forms manifest as things respond: a well peers at a donkey. When selfish ties dissolve, I become like a channel. Don't cling to deeds carved on the unicorn tower— Your name is meant to be written from the left rib's power.
問：切忌未生時，因甚雲嵒、洞山向不生不滅處相見？
Question: Why do Yunyan and Dongshan meet in the realm beyond birth and death, even though they caution against focusing on the state before birth?
楚天藏盡月輪孤，漢地星垂列壯圖。誰向春風怨楊柳，從來客路是歸途。