77Yunmen's Cake
Introduction 垂示
向上轉去，可以穿天下人鼻孔，似鶻捉鳩。向下轉去，自己鼻孔在別人手裏，如龜藏殼。箇中忽有箇出來道：「本來無向上向下，用轉作什麼？」只向伊道：「我也知爾向鬼窟裏作活計。」且道：作麼生辨箇緇素？良久云：「有條攀條，無條攀例。」試舉看。
Turn upward, and you can lead everyone alive by the nose, a falcon snatching a pigeon. Turn downward, and your own nose sits in someone else's fist, a turtle drawn into its shell. Suppose someone steps forward and says, "There never was any up or down. What's all this turning for?" Just tell him: "So you've found a way to scrape out a living inside a ghost cave." Now tell me, how do you sort black from white? After a long pause: "Got a rule, go by the rule; no rule, go by precedent." Let's look at one.
僧問雲門：「如何是超佛越祖之談？」門云：「餬餅。」
A monk asked Yunmen, "What is talk that gets past the Buddhas and beyond the patriarchs?"
Yunmen said, "A sesame cake."