[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [汾陽無德禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992) › 1.24 # 汾陽無德禪師語錄 1.24 汾陽無德禪師語錄 1.24 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.1.24) 上堂云：「乾坤寬廓，宇宙橫鋪，衲僧分上，左穿右穴，樵父檐柴，醫王辨價，藥多病甚，網細魚稠，東西南北，衝霜蹈雪，不避寒暄，要明斯事也。須是箇一刀兩斷漢始得，只恁麼哄哄恫恫地爛冬瓜相似，有什麼成辦？齩斷兩頭，猶是惹泥帶水，豈更因循可惜許？兄弟！正法難聞，正因難發，何不自省去。譬如兩陣相逢，不讓先手，掣鼓奪旗，快須與徹，人人慷慨，各各英豪，大丈夫兒，莫教辜負行心、虛消信施，山雲廣闊，有什麼休時，若不自智玄通，決定償他夙債，圖什麼波波地誑他父母，虛生一遍了，又更出家行脚，云我參善知識，見性絕生死流，了無為法。苦哉苦哉，萬中無一自省歸根者矣。如今有麼？有即出來。」問：「承和尚有言，父母之恩，如何報得？」師云：「粉骨碎身。」「還當得也無？」師云：「不因親寶地，爭得到祇園。」 > Ascending the hall, he said: "Heaven and earth are vast and open; the universe spreads out horizontally. On the patch-robed monk's part, he pierces through to the left and burrows through to the right. The woodcutter shoulders his firewood; the King of Physicians determines the price. Where medicine is abundant, illnesses are severe; where the net is fine, fish are crowded together. Heading east, west, south, and north, braving frost and treading on snow, shrinking neither from cold nor heat, he must make this matter clear. You must be someone who cuts \[it\] in two with a single blade before you can attain it. If you merely remain foolishly muddled like a rotten winter melon, what will you ever accomplish? Biting through both ends is still dragging through mud and water; how could you keep procrastinating in such a regrettable manner? Brothers! The true Dharma is hard to hear, and the correct cause is hard to arouse; why not reflect upon yourselves? It is like two armies meeting: never yield the first move. Beat the drum and seize the banner; you must swiftly carry it through to the end! Each person bold, everyone heroic—a great hero must not allow himself to fail the initial resolve of his practice or vainly consume the offerings of the faithful. Mountain clouds are vast and wide—when will there ever be an end to them? If you do not penetrate the mystery with your own wisdom, you will surely have to repay your past debts to others. What are you striving for, wandering aimlessly and deceiving your parents? Having lived a wasted life, you then also left home to go on foot, saying, 'I am calling on good spiritual friends, seeing into my nature to cut off the flow of birth and death, and realizing unconditioned phenomena.' Alas, alas! Not one in ten thousand reflects upon himself and returns to the root. Are there any such persons right now? If there are, come forward!" A monk asked: "I have received the Venerable's saying; how can the kindness of one's parents be repaid?" The Master said: "Shatter your bones and pulverize your body." "Does that suffice, or not?" The Master said: "Were it not for drawing near to the precious ground, how could one reach the Jetavana Park?" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.1.23) - [Next: 1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.1.25) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992~en-mt.1.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.1.24) · Pramāṇa