13Addressing the Assembly示眾
師示眾云：「迦葉傳與阿難，且道達磨傳與什麼人？」問：「且如二祖得髓，又作麼生？」師云：「莫謗二祖。」師又云：「達磨也有語：『在外者得皮，在裏者得骨。』且道更在裏者得什麼？」問：「如何是得髓底道理？」師云：「但識取皮，老僧者裏髓也不立。」云：「如何是髓？」師云：「與麼皮也摸未著。」問：「與麼堂堂，豈不是和尚正位？」師云：「還知有不肯者麼？」學云：「與麼即別有位。」師云：「誰是別者？」學云：「誰是不別者？」師云：「一任呌。」問：「上上人一撥便轉，下下人來時如何？」師云：「汝是上上、下下？」云：「請和尚答話。」師云：「話未有主在。」云：「某甲七千里來，莫作心行。」師云：「據你者一問，心行莫不得麼？」此僧一宿便去。問：「不紹傍來者如何？」師云：「誰？」學云：「惠延。」師云：「問什麼？」學云：「不紹傍來者。」師以手撫之。問：「如何是衲衣下事？」師云：「莫自瞞。」問：「真如凡聖皆是夢言，如何是真言？」師云：「更不道者兩箇。」學云：「兩箇且置，如何是真言？」師云：
唵□啉㗶。
問：「如何是趙州？」師云：「東門、西門、南門、北門。」問：「如何是定？」師云：「不定。」學云：「為什麼不定？」師云：「活物，活物。」問：「不隨諸有時如何？」師云：「合與麼。」學云：「莫便是學人本分事？」師云：「隨也，隨也。」問：「古人三十年一張弓兩下箭，只射得半箇聖人，今日請師全射。」師便起去。
Zhaozhou addressed the assembly: "Mahakashyapa handed it to Ananda. So tell me: who did Bodhidharma hand it to?"
A monk asked, "Then what about the Second Patriarch, who got the marrow?"
Zhaozhou said, "Don't slander the Second Patriarch."
He went on: "Bodhidharma did say it. The one outside got the skin, the one inside got the bone. So tell me: what did the one further in than that get?"
A monk asked, "What's the reasoning behind getting the marrow?"
Zhaozhou said, "Just take hold of the skin. Here with me, I don't even set up a marrow."
The monk said, "What is the marrow?"
Zhaozhou said, "At that rate you can't even lay a finger on the skin."
A monk asked, "Sitting there so grand and upright, isn't that the master's true seat?"
Zhaozhou said, "And do you know there's one who won't go along with it?"
The monk said, "Then there's a separate seat."
Zhaozhou said, "Who's separate?"
The monk said, "Who isn't?"
Zhaozhou said, "Yell all you want."
A monk asked, "The best of the best turn at a single nudge. What about when the worst of the worst come along?"
Zhaozhou said, "Are you the best of the best, or the worst of the worst?"
The monk said, "Answer me, master."
Zhaozhou said, "The conversation has no master yet."
The monk said, "I came seven thousand miles. Don't toy with my mind."
Zhaozhou said, "Going by a question like yours, how could I not toy with your mind?"
The monk stayed one night and left.
A monk asked, "What about the one who doesn't carry on a side transmission?"
Zhaozhou said, "Who?"
The monk said, "Huiyan."
Zhaozhou said, "Asking about what?"
The monk said, "The one who doesn't carry on a side transmission."
Zhaozhou reached out and patted him.
A monk asked, "What's the matter under the patched robe?"
Zhaozhou said, "Don't fool yourself."
A monk asked, "Suchness, ordinary, holy: it's all dream-talk. What is true speech?"
Zhaozhou said, "I won't say those other two again."
The monk said, "Leave those two aside. What is true speech?"
Zhaozhou said: "Om □ lin he."
A monk asked, "What is Zhaozhou?"
Zhaozhou said, "East gate, west gate, south gate, north gate."
A monk asked, "What is concentration?"
Zhaozhou said, "It won't stay fixed."
The monk said, "Why won't it stay fixed?"
Zhaozhou said, "A living thing. A living thing."
A monk asked, "What about not running after anything that exists?"
Zhaozhou said, "That's how it should be."
The monk said, "Isn't that the student's own true business?"
Zhaozhou said, "You're running. You're running."
A monk asked, "The ancients spent thirty years on one bow and two arrows and only brought down half a sage. Today, master, shoot the whole thing."
Zhaozhou got up and left.