筠州洞山悟本禪師語錄 1.201

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從上宗乘，為物垂言，一如撾塗毒鼓，聞者皆喪。絕後乃重甦，無舌而解語，湖南正脈，青石濫觴。五傳迄乎新豐，一瀉千里，百谷朝宗，法性波瀾渺無涯涘。矧夫文章富贍，家法縝密，高懸寶鏡，善赴來機。自非入室神足，阿誰敢窺影鞭？門外遊人逡巡退縮，歐峯奔逸絕塵，前玉步趨繼踵，以至二八賢哲執轡並馳，駸駸乎其壯矣哉！其片言隻字，崑璧南金，雖多載陳編，未見有全錄。僉曰：「祖庭闕典，莫同心不浩歎。」宜默禪人為之慷慨髮指，纂錄惟懋，采摭殆盡，乃釐作壹卷。昔者湛然澄禪師得山林居士等，涉獵叢書，鈔錄玄沙語，味際天浴日之海鹹於一滴，以慰禪者之渴心。今也宜默俲其故事者乎，可謂勤矣！若夫一家雲仍因標見月，得意忘言，箇箇臣奉君，人人子就父，則洞水逆流瀰漫乎四海。被其沾丐者，孰敢不隨喜？因敘緒言，辨諸卷端。

The ancestral lineage from antiquity, in handing down words for the sake of beings, has done so just like striking a poison-smeared drum: all who hear it perish. Only after complete extinction are they revived; though tongueless, they comprehend speech. The orthodox pulse of Hunan originated from Qingshi. Five transmissions brought it to Xinfeng, where it poured out a thousand leagues, all valleys paying homage, the waves of Dharma-nature boundless and shoreless. How much more so with its abundant rhetoric and strict family tradition, hanging high the precious mirror and adroitly responding to approaching capacities! Unless one were a foremost disciple admitted to the inner chamber, who would dare look at the shadow of the whip? Travelers outside the gate hesitate and shrink back, while Oufeng galloped swiftly leaving no dust behind, and the former jade steps followed closely on their heels, until twice-eight sages and philosophers held the reins and galloped abreast—how vigorously magnificent it was! Its fragments of words and isolated phrases are jades of Kunlun and gold of the South; though mostly recorded in old volumes, no complete record had yet been seen. Everyone said: “There is an absence of classics in the ancestral court; who among those of one mind does not heave a deep sigh?” The Chan practitioner Gimo was deeply stirred, hair bristling with zeal; he exerted himself in compilation, gathering nearly everything, and arranged it into one fascicle. Formerly, when Chan Master Zhanran Cheng obtained the hermit of the mountain forests and others, they perused collected writings, transcribed the sayings of Xuansha, and tasted the sea's saltiness bathing the sun at the edge of the sky in a single drop, so as to slake the thirst of Chan practitioners. Today, has not Gimo followed their precedent? He may well be called diligent! If the descendants of this family look at the moon by means of the pointer, attain the meaning and forget the words, each minister serving the lord and every child approaching the father, then the waters of Dongshan will flow upstream and inundate the four seas. Among those who receive its beneficence, who would dare not rejoice in accord? Thus I have written these opening remarks, clarifying them at the head of the scroll.