16Maku Shakes His Staff麻谷振錫
Introduction 示眾
指鹿為馬，握土成金。舌上起風雷，眉間藏血刃。坐觀成敗，立驗死生。且道：是何三昧？
Call a deer a horse. Pinch dirt into gold. Storms break loose on the tip of the tongue, and a blade hides between the brows. Sit and watch who wins and who loses; stand and test who lives and who dies. So tell me: what kind of trance is this?
麻谷持錫到章敬，遶禪床三匝，振錫一下，卓然而立。敬云：「是，是。」谷又到南泉，遶禪床三匝，振錫一下，卓然而立。泉云：「不是，不是。」谷云：「章敬道是，和尚為什麼道不是？」泉云：「章敬即是，是汝不是。此是風力所轉，終成敗壞。」
Maku came to Zhangjing carrying his ringed staff. He walked around the meditation seat three times, gave the staff a single shake, and stood there straight as a post.
Zhangjing said, "Right, right."
Then Maku went to Nanquan. He walked around the meditation seat three times, gave the staff a single shake, and stood there straight as a post.
Nanquan said, "Wrong, wrong."
Maku said, "Zhangjing called it right. Why do you call it wrong?"
Nanquan said, "Zhangjing was right. You're wrong. The wind is blowing you around, and in the end it all falls apart."