雲門匡真禪師廣錄 1.38

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上堂云：「和尚子直饒爾道有什麼事，猶是頭上安頭、雪上加霜，棺木裏眨眼、炙盤上更著艾爝，這箇是一場狼藉不少也。爾合作麼生？各自覓箇託生處好，莫空遊州獵縣，秖欲得揑搦閑言語，待老和尚口動，便問禪問道，向上向下，如何若何，大卷抄將去，𡎺向皮袋裏卜度，到處火鑪邊三箇五箇聚頭舉口，喃喃地便道，這箇是公才語，這箇是就處打出語，這箇是事上道底語，這箇是體語，體汝屋裏老爺老孃，噇却飯了，秖管說夢，便道我會佛法了也。將知與麼行脚，驢年得休歇麼？更有一般底，纔聞說箇休歇處，便向陰界裏閉目合眼，老鼠孔裏作活計，黑山下坐，鬼趣裏體當，便道我得箇入路也。還夢見麼？這一般底打殺萬箇，有什麼罪過？喚作打底，不遇作家，至竟秖是箇掠虛漢。爾若實有箇見處，拈將來看，共汝商量。莫空過，不識好惡，𧩪𧩪詷詷地聚頭說葛藤，莫教老僧見，捉來勘不相當，槌折腰，莫言不道。汝皮下還有血麼？到處自欲受屈作麼？這滅胡種，盡是野狐群隊，總在這裏作麼？」以拄杖一時趁下。問：「十方薄伽梵，一路涅槃門。如何是一路涅槃門？」師云：「我道不得。」進云：「和尚為什麼道不得？」師云：「是爾舉話即得。」問：「如何是法說？」師云：「大眾久立，速禮三拜。」「如何是隨意說？」師云：「晨時有粥，齋時有飯。」「如何是隨宜說？」師云：「三德六味，施佛及僧。」「如何是方便說？」師云：「是汝鼻孔重三斤半。」「如何是大悲說？」師云：「歸依佛法僧。」問：「生死根源即不問，如何是目前三昧？」師云：「吃嘹舌頭三千里。」進云：「今日得遇和尚也。」師云：「放爾三十棒。」問：「乞師指示。」師云：「上大人，丘乙己。」進云：「學人不會。」師云：「化三千，七十士。」問：「不離三德六味，還有佛法也無？」師云：「秖怕爾不問。」進云：「請師道。」師云：「三德六味，施佛及僧。」

Ascending the hall, [the Master] said, "Venerable monks! Even if you say there is some matter, that is still placing a head on top of a head, adding frost upon snow, winking inside a coffin, and placing moxa coals on a cautery plate. This is no small mess! What ought you to do? Each of you should find a place to settle your life. Do not travel through prefectures and hunt through counties in vain, just wishing to grab hold of idle words, waiting for the old upādhyāya's mouth to move, and immediately asking about Chan, asking about the Way, the transcendental and the downward, how and what, copying it down into large scrolls and stuffing it into your skin-bags to make conjectures. Everywhere beside the fire-braziers, three or five gathered together, mouths babbling, you immediately say, 'This is an expression of public talent,' 'This is an expression struck out right on the spot,' 'This is an expression spoken on the basis of phenomena,' 'This is an expression of essence'—the essence of the old father and old mother in your home! Having gorged on rice, you just talk in your sleep and then claim, 'I have understood the Buddha Dharma!' Know that traveling on pilgrimage like this, in what year of the donkey will you ever rest? Moreover, there is another sort: as soon as they hear mention of a resting place, they immediately close their eyes in the realm of the aggregates, making a living inside a rat's hole, sitting under the black mountain, conjecturing within the ghostly realm, and claiming, 'I have found an entry path!' Have you even dreamed of it yet? If one beat ten thousand of this sort to death, what offense would there be? Though called beating, if they do not meet an adept, in the end they are merely fellows snatching at emptiness. If you truly have some insight, bring it out and let us examine it; I will discuss it with you. Do not pass your time in vain, unable to tell good from bad, chattering and jabbering together, spinning tangles of vines. Do not let this old monk see you; if I catch you and examine you and you do not match up, I will break your waist with a staff—do not say I did not warn you! Is there still blood under your skin? Why do you voluntarily seek to be wronged everywhere? You exterminators of the barbarian seed are all a pack of wild foxes! What are you all doing here?" Using his staff, he drove them all down at once. A monk asked, "'The Bhagavats of the ten directions have one path to the gate of nirvāṇa.' What is the one path to the gate of nirvāṇa?" The Master said, "I cannot speak it." He advanced and asked, "Why can the Upādhyāya not speak it?" The Master said, "It is fine for you to raise the topic." A monk asked, "What is expounding according to Dharma?" The Master said, "The great assembly has been standing long; quickly make three prostrations." "What is expounding according to intention?" The Master said, "In the morning there is congee; at noon there is rice." "What is expounding according to suitability?" The Master said, "Three virtues and six flavors, offered to the Buddha and the Sangha." "What is expounding by skillful means?" The Master said, "Your nostrils weigh three and a half pounds." "What is expounding with great compassion?" The Master said, "Take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha." A monk asked, "I do not ask about the root source of birth and death; what is the samādhi before one's eyes?" The Master said, "Eating one's tongue, three thousand miles away." He advanced and asked, "Today I have managed to encounter the Upādhyāya." The Master said, "I spare you thirty blows." A monk asked, "I beg the Master for instruction." The Master said, "Shang daren, Qiu Yiji." He advanced and asked, "The student does not understand." The Master said, "Transformed three thousand, seventy scholars." A monk asked, "Not apart from the three virtues and six flavors, is there still the Buddha Dharma?" The Master said, "I only fear you will not ask." He advanced and asked, "Please speak, Master." The Master said, "Three virtues and six flavors, offered to the Buddha and the Sangha."