39Zhaozhou's Wash Your Bowl趙州洗鉢
Introduction 示眾
飯來張口，睡來合眼。洗面處拾得鼻孔，□鞋時摸著脚跟。那時蹉却話頭，把火夜深別覓，如何得相應去？
Food comes, you open your mouth. Sleep comes, you close your eyes. You wash your face and there's your nose; you pull on your sandals and there are your heels. But reach for the point of the talk and you've missed it. Carry a lamp into the dead of night to hunt for it and it's already gone. So how do you fall into step with it?
僧問趙州：「學人乍入叢林，乞師指示。」州云：「喫粥了也未？」僧云：「喫了。」州云：「洗鉢盂去。」
A monk said to Zhaozhou, "I've just come to the monastery. Please teach me."
Zhaozhou said, "Have you eaten your rice gruel?"
The monk said, "I've eaten."
Zhaozhou said, "Then go wash your bowl."
Verse 頌
粥罷令教洗鉢盂，
豁然心地自相符。
而今參飽叢林客，
且道：其間有悟無？
Breakfast done, he's told to wash his bowl.
All at once the mind falls into place.
And you, well-fed old hands of the monastery,
tell me: was there any waking in it, or none?