瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄 1.59

1.59

While eating fruit with Head Monk Tai during the winter solstice, the Master asked, "There is a thing: above, it supports the heavens; below, it supports the earth. Black as lacquer, it is constantly amidst dynamic functioning, yet within dynamic functioning it cannot be contained. Now tell me: where does its fault lie?"
Tai said, "The fault lies within dynamic functioning." (Tong'an Xian commented alternatively, "I do not know.")
The Master called the attendant to clear away the fruit table. (Wuzu Jie spoke on the head monk's behalf, saying, "Come morning, I would present it again for the King of Chu to see." Langye Jiao said, "Were it not for old man Dongshan, who could have discerned it? Even so, Dongshan was still lacking a single move." Guishan Zhe said, "Do all of you know where Dongshan landed? If you do not know, you will often understand it in terms of right and wrong, gain and loss." This mountain monk says, "Not only is this fruit not for the head monk to eat—even if people from the entire great earth were to come, they would not be able to catch a direct glimpse of it." Yunggai Ben said, "Although Dongshan has the pincers and hammer to smash empty space, he lacks the needle and thread to patch it up. Waiting for him to say, 'The fault lies within dynamic functioning,' he should simply have said, 'Please, Head Monk, eat some fruit.' If Head Monk Tai were a true patch-robed monk, having eaten it he would have had to vomit it out." Nantang Jing said, "Dongshan sits devising strategies within the command tent, deciding victory a thousand miles away. Head Monk Tai's whole body is a mouth, yet he has a reason he cannot express." Guishan Guo said, "Dongshan oppresses the good into servitude, and Head Monk Tai has a reason he cannot express. Seeing injustice on the road, this mountain monk wants to clear his name. At that time, as soon as one saw him ask thus, one should merely have said to him, 'The bestowal of prophecy on Vulture Peak did not reach this far.' Waiting for him to deliberate, take the fruit and fling it straight at his face—not only stopping up his throat, but preventing later people from giving rise to delusional reckonings." Jingci Chang said, "Although Dongshan managed to clear away the fruit table, he nevertheless failed to stop up Head Monk Tai's mouth.")