撫州曹山元證禪師語錄 1.116

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問：「如何是隨類墮？」曰：「不斷聲色，又不失香味。」「如何是彼師？」曰：「六處。」「如何是彼師所墮？」曰：「田舍老翁入聚落，眼耳鼻舌俱失却。」「如何是汝亦隨墮？」曰：「存。」「存箇什麼？」曰：「不得動著，又不離聲色。」又溈山曰：「我百年後作一頭水牯牛，左脇上書溈山僧某甲一行字，汝道當見之時喚作甚麼？」無對，後曹山代曰：「喚作水牯牛。」問：「未審此水牯牛還解耕稼否？」曰：「灼然。」「是什麼類？」曰：「披毛戴角者。」「四時食何水草？」曰：「不入口者。」「如何是水牯牛？」曰：「不證聖。」「如何是銜一莖草？」曰：「毛羽根似去。」「是超聖是超類？」曰：「是超聖。」問：「如何是水牯牛。」曰：「冥冥矇矇。」「如何是含一莖草來？」曰：「古人道了也，毛羽相似去（荷玉向自道取答古人語，奈何）。」又曰：「一草者秖是明得不變異也。」又曰：「祖佛不知有，貍奴白牯却知有，為什麼貍奴白牯却知有？」曰：「秖是百無所解。」「秖如祖佛為什麼不知有？」曰：「祖為執印，佛為相似。」「秖如貍奴白牯，知有箇甚麼？」曰：「秖知有貍奴白牯。」「如何是貍奴白牯知有底事？」曰：「不從西東來，不從三十二相得。」「如何是祖？」曰：「上有。」「如何是佛？」曰：「相似去。」

A monk asked, "What is the fall according with kind?" He said, "Not severing sound and form, nor losing scent and taste." "Who is 'that teacher'?" He said, "The six sense bases." "What is 'where that teacher falls'?" He said, "An old rustic enters the village: eyes, ears, nose, and tongue are all lost." "What is 'you also follow and fall'?" He said, "Preserved." "Preserved as what?" He said, "It cannot be stirred, nor is it apart from sound and form." Guishan also said, "A hundred years after me, I will become a water buffalo, with a line of characters written on my left flank: 'Monk So-and-so of Mount Gui.' You tell me, when you see it, what will you call it?" There was no response. Later Caoshan answered on their behalf, saying, "Call it a water buffalo." [A monk] asked, "I wonder, does this water buffalo know how to plow and sow?" [Caoshan] said, "Indeed so." "What kind is it?" He said, "One that wears fur and sports horns." "In the four seasons, what water and grass does it eat?" He said, "That which does not enter the mouth." "What is the water buffalo?" He said, "It does not realize sainthood." "What is holding a stalk of grass in its mouth?" He said, "Feathers and fur seem to resemble it." "Does it transcend the sagely, or transcend kind?" He said, "It transcends the sagely." [A monk] asked, "What is the water buffalo?" He said, "Dark and indistinct." "What is coming with a stalk of grass in its mouth?" He said, "An ancient has already spoken of it: 'Feathers and fur seem to resemble it.' (Heyu spoke it himself in answering the ancient's words; what can be done?)" He also said, "The 'one stalk of grass' is just understanding the unchanging." He also said, "The patriarchs and buddhas do not know the existence of It, but the black cat and white ox do know the existence of It. Why do the black cat and white ox know the existence of It?" He said, "They merely have no understanding of anything whatsoever." "Why do the patriarchs and buddhas not know the existence of It?" He said, "The patriarchs cling to the seal; the buddhas are mere semblances." "Just what do the black cat and white ox know the existence of?" He said, "They only know the existence of the black cat and white ox." "What is the matter that the black cat and white ox know the existence of?" He said, "It does not come from west or east; it is not obtained from the thirty-two marks." "What is a patriarch?" He said, "There is something above." "What is a buddha?" He said, "A mere semblance."