瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄 1.32

1.32

When Xuefeng was serving as the head cook, as he was washing rice, the Master asked, "Are you sifting the sand to remove the rice, or sifting the rice to remove the sand?" Xuefeng said, "Sand and rice are removed at once." The Master said, "What will the great assembly eat?" Xuefeng thereupon overturned the rice basin. The Master said, "According to your nidāna, you belong at Deshan." (Langye Jiao said, "Xuefeng's going this way is much like abandoning a sweet peach tree and searching the mountains to pick sour pears." Tiantong Jue said, "Xuefeng climbed higher with every step, unaware that the strap of his straw sandal had broken. If he had accommodated the upright and crooked, striking and singing together, then speech and spirit would naturally have harmonized, father and son in accord. Tell me: what was Dongshan's intention in not approving Xuefeng? In a cloudless sky of ten thousand miles, there is still a fault; when the jade-green pool is like a mirror, the moon is hard to reflect." Xuedou Zong said, "A straight tree does not shelter luan or phoenix; the gold needle has already embroidered mandarin ducks. Were it not for the old man of Xinfeng, one would immediately see ice melting and tiles shattering.")