瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄 1.66

1.66

師示眾云：「兄弟，秋初夏末，東去西去，直須向萬里無寸草處去始得。」良久云：「祇如萬里無寸草處，作麼生去？」後有舉似石霜，石霜云：「何不道：出門便是草？」師聞乃云：「大唐國裏，能有幾人？」（大陽玄云：「如今直道不出門，亦草漫漫地。且道，合向甚麼處行履？」良久云：「莫守寒巖異草青，坐著白雲宗不妙。」白雲端云：「若見得菴主，便見得洞山。若見得洞山，便見得菴主。見洞山即易，見菴主即難，為他不為住持之絆。不見道：雲在嶺頭閑不徹，水流㵎底太忙生。」溈山果云：「斬釘截鐵，豁開向上玄關。語諦言誠，且指當人要路。且道，爾作麼生會出門便是草？石霜恁麼道，上封恁麼舉，爾諸人不得動著，動著三十棒。」徑山杲云：「師子一滴乳，迸散十斛驢乳。」）

The Master instructed the assembly, saying, "Brothers, in early autumn and late summer, whether going east or going west, you must head straight to the place where there is not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles; only then will you get it." After a pause, he said, "Just tell me, how do you go to the place where there is not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles?"
Later someone brought this up to Shishuang. Shishuang said, "Why didn't he say: 'As soon as you step out the gate, there is grass'?"
When the Master heard this, he said, "In the great land of the Tang, how many people could there be [like this]?" (Dayang Xuan said, "Nowadays, even if one directly says that without stepping out the gate, the grass is still boundless and overgrown. Tell me, where ought one to tread?" After a pause, he said, "Do not guard the greenness of unusual grass on cold cliffs; dwelling in white clouds, the lineage is not subtle." Baiyun Duan said, "If you can see the hermit, then you can see Dongshan. If you can see Dongshan, then you can see the hermit. Seeing Dongshan is easy; seeing the hermit is difficult, because he is not fettered by being an abbot. Have you not heard it said: 'Clouds on the ridge top never cease to be idle; water flowing in the ravine's depth is all too hurried'?" Guishan Guo said, "Severing nails and cutting through iron, he throws open the subtle pass toward the beyond. Words true and speech sincere, they point directly to the essential path for that person. Now tell me, how do you understand 'As soon as you step out the gate, there is grass'? Shishuang spoke thus, and Shangfeng brought it up thus. None of you may stir; if you stir, thirty blows of the staff." Jingshan Gao said, "A single drop of lion's milk scatters ten bushels of donkey's milk.")