07/01/2022

有位小沙弥道信，来拜见三祖僧璨说：“请和尚慈悲，指示解脱法门。”

僧璨说：“谁绑住你了？”

道信想了一想，说：“没人绑我。”

僧璨说：“那又何必求解脱呢？”

道信立刻言下大悟.

A novice monk Dao Xin visited Third Patriarch Seng Can and said: "Please have some compassion and teach me the method of liberation."

Seng Chan said, "What has bind you?"

Daoxin thought for a while and said, "No one has bind me."

Seng Can said: "Then why bother to seek liberation?"

Daoxin became enlightened upon attaining the meaning.