雲門匡真禪師廣錄 1.10

1.10

上堂云：「舉一則語，教汝直下承當，早是撒屎著爾頭上也。直饒拈一毛頭，盡大地一時明得，也是剜肉作瘡。雖然如此，也須是實到者箇田地始得。若未，且不得掠虛，却須退步向自己根脚下推尋，看是什麼道理，實無絲髮許與汝作解會、與汝作疑惑，況汝等且各各當人有一段事。大用現前，更不煩汝一毫頭氣力，便與祖佛無別。自是汝諸人信根淺薄、惡業濃厚，突然起得如許多頭角，擔鉢囊千鄉萬里受屈作麼？且汝諸人有什麼不足處，大丈夫漢阿誰無分？獨自承當，尚猶不著便，不可受人欺瞞、取人處分，纔見老和尚開口，便好把特石驀口塞，便似屎上青蠅相似，鬪咂將去，三箇五箇聚頭商量。苦屈！兄弟，古人一期為汝諸人不奈何，所以垂一言半句通爾入路。知是般事，拈放一邊，自著些子筋骨，豈不是有少許相親處。快與快與，時不待人，出息不保入息，更有什麼身心閑別處用？切須在意。珍重。」

Ascending the hall, he said, "To bring up a phrase and have you directly take it upon yourselves is already splattering dung on your heads. Even if you pick up a single hair-tip and instantly illuminate the whole earth, that too is gouging flesh to make a wound. Even so, one must genuinely arrive at this state before it will do. If you have not yet, you must never grasp at empty air; instead, you must step back and search under your own heels to see what principle it is. In truth, there is not a thread or a hair to serve as your understanding or to serve as your doubt. What is more, each and every one of you has a section of this matter. When the great functioning appears before you, it does not bother you for a single hair-tip of effort, and you are no different from the patriarchs and buddhas. It is simply that your roots of faith are shallow and thin, and your evil karma is thick and dense; suddenly you sprout so many horns, carrying your bowls and bags across thousands of prefectures and ten thousand li—why suffer this grievance? And what do you people lack? Which great fellow does not have a share? Undertaking it all by oneself is already inadequate; you must not suffer people's deceit or accept people's directives. The moment you see an old monk open his mouth, you should stuff a special stone right into his mouth! You are just like green flies on dung, fighting to suck at it, gathering three or five heads together to confer. What bitter grief! Brothers, in an earlier time the ancients could not help doing this for you, and so they offered a phrase or half a sentence to open an entryway for you. Knowing that this is how things are, set it aside, exert a bit of your own sinew and bone—would that not bring a little intimacy? Be quick! Be quick! Time waits for no one. An exhalation does not guarantee the next inhalation. What other body and mind do you have to spend on idle matters elsewhere? You must pay earnest attention. Take care."