65Shoushan's Bride首山新婦
Introduction 示眾
吒吒沙沙，剝剝落落，刀刀蹶蹶，漫漫汗汗。沒可咬嚼，難為近傍。且道：是甚麼話？
Clatter and scrape. Crack and crumble. Stumble and lurch. A muddy, sweaty mess. Nothing here to sink your teeth into, nothing to get close to. So tell me: what kind of talk is this?
僧問首山：「如何是佛？」山云：「新婦騎驢阿家牽。」
A monk asked Shoushan, "What is Buddha?"
Shoushan said, "The bride rides the donkey, and her mother-in-law leads it."
Verse 頌
新婦騎驢阿家牽，
體段風流得自然。
堪笑學顰隣舍女，
向人添醜不成妍。
The bride rides the donkey, the mother-in-law leads:
her bearing graceful, easy, nothing forced.
Laughable, the neighbor girl who copies that frown.
She only piles on ugliness and comes out plain.