撫州曹山元證禪師語錄 1.115

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又曰：「不受食尊貴墮者，食者是本分事，知有不取，故曰尊貴墮。披毛戴角沙門墮者，不執沙門邊事及諸聖報位也（須看異類開示）。不斷聲色隨類墮者，為初心知有自己本分事，迴光之時，擯出色聲香味觸法得寧謐，則成功勳，後却不執六塵，墮而不昧，任之無礙，故曰：『外道六師是汝之師，彼師所墮汝亦隨墮，乃可取食。』食者則是正命食也，亦本分事也。秖是就六根門頭見聞覺知，不被他染污，呼為墮，不同向前怕。他本分事尚不取，況其餘，故云：『子細子細。』」　揀曰：「作水牯牛是什麼墮？」代曰：「不處正位，不揀其身，始喚作沙門墮。」「不斷聲色是什麼墮？」代曰：「凡情得盡，聖量亦忘，聲色塵中不應更斷，乃可取食，是為隨類墮。」「不受食是什麼墮？」代曰：「了達正因，不存勝解，故云：『尊貴墮也。』」又曰：「沙門墮者，亦不無其行，亦不無其閒。雖有其閒，常無其閒；雖有其行，常無其行。此事切須知時節，莫東西。」

He also said, "'Not receiving food' is the fall of the noble and exalted: food is one's fundamental matter; knowing the existence of It and not taking it is therefore called the fall of the noble and exalted. 'Wearing fur and sporting horns' is the śramaṇa's fall: not clinging to matters on the śramaṇa's side or the reward-stages of the various sages (one must look at the instruction on different species). 'Not severing sound and form' is the fall according with kind: for a beginner who knows the existence of his own fundamental matter, when turning back the light, expelling sights, sounds, scents, tastes, tangibles, and dharmas to attain tranquility is achieving merit; later, however, he does not cling to the six dusts, falling without being obscured, letting them be without hindrance. Therefore it is said: 'The six non-Buddhist teachers are your teachers; where those teachers fall, you also follow and fall; only then can you take food.' Food is the food of right livelihood, and it is also one's fundamental matter. It is merely that at the gates of the six sense faculties, in seeing, hearing, perceiving, and knowing, one is not defiled by them; this is called 'falling', which is not like being afraid previously. Even one's fundamental matter is not taken, much less the rest; therefore it is said, 'Be careful, be careful.'" Jian said, "What fall is becoming a water buffalo?" Answering on his behalf: "Not abiding in the correct rank and not selecting one's body is only then called the śramaṇa's fall." "What fall is not severing sound and form?" Answering on his behalf: "When ordinary feelings are exhausted and sagely measures are also forgotten, amid the dust of sounds and forms one should not sever further; only then may one take food—this is the fall according with kind." "What fall is not receiving food?" Answering on his behalf: "Thoroughly penetrating the correct cause and not maintaining superior understanding; therefore it is said to be the fall of the noble and exalted." He also said, "As for the śramaṇa's fall, it is neither without its conduct nor without its leisure. Although there is leisure, there is constantly no leisure; although there is conduct, there is constantly no conduct. In this matter one must strictly know the season; do not go this way and that."