Wuzu said: It's like a buffalo passing through a window lattice. The head, the horns, all four hooves get through. So how is it the tail can't?
Wumen's Comment 無門曰
若向者裏。顛倒著得一隻眼。下得一轉語。可以上報四恩下資三有。其或未然。更須照顧尾巴始得。
If, right here, you can turn yourself over, fix the single eye, and drop one turning word that lands, then you repay the four debts above and sustain the three realms below. If you can't, you had better keep watching that tail.
Verse 頌曰
過去墮坑塹回來卻被壞者些尾巴子直是甚奇怪
Go forward, you fall in the pit.Turn back, and you're wrecked.This little scrap of a tail—what a strange thing it is.
Wumen's Comment 無門曰
若向者裏。顛倒著得一隻眼。下得一轉語。可以上報四恩下資三有。其或未然。更須照顧尾巴始得。
If, right here, you can turn yourself over, fix the single eye, and drop one turning word that lands, then you repay the four debts above and sustain the three realms below. If you can't, you had better keep watching that tail.