汾陽無德禪師語錄 3.51

3.51

A single wooden staff held in my hand, / propping up earth and heaven, priceless beyond measure; / head and tail whirl about, striking with the lightning mechanism, / fit to serve as a rule for all quarters. / I announce to the followers of Chan: seize it with vigor! / When crossing waters and climbing mountains, lean on it for support; / carried horizontally across the world, reclining in the vast sky, / it points out heaven and earth, illuminating the Buddhas and Patriarchs. / Striking the foolish, subduing fierce tigers, / directly severing to the source, I entrust it to you; / causing them to use it freely, vertically and horizontally, / gauging vessels square and round, skillfully shifting and interchanging. / Rarely finding one who understands, do not speak falsely; / Huangbo and Gaoting were exceedingly reckless; / Deshan and Linji spread it out completely; / Heze clearly received it from the Sixth Patriarch. / Latter-day students lack the anvil and hammer; / holding it in their palms, they cannot split it open; / Shaoyang uniquely grasped the mind of Muzhou; / Baoshou opened his hall, surpassing past and present. / Showing comrades in robes, pointing out the path ahead: / carrying clothes on your shoulders is great bitterness and toil; / your bottle and bowl are already quite a lot, / yet you shoulder thousands and myriads more along the way; / now, in all your movements, it always accompanies you— / do nothing more than take a look at it yourself with your reed cutter.