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居士一日在茅廬裡坐,驀忽云:「難,難,難,十碩油麻樹上攤。」龐婆云:「易,易,易,如下眠床脚踏地。」靈照云:「也不難,也不易,百草頭上祖師意。」

One day Layman Pang was sitting in his thatched hut. Suddenly he said, "Hard, hard, hard — like spreading ten bushels of sesame seeds over a tree."

His wife said, "Easy, easy, easy — like your feet finding the floor when you climb out of bed."

Their daughter Lingzhao said, "Neither hard nor easy: the mind of the patriarchs, on the tip of every blade of grass."