黃龍慧南禪師語錄 1.183

1.183

因僧馳書至，上堂，舉：「玄沙令僧馳書上雪峯，峯上堂，開見白紙三幅，乃示眾云：『會麼？』僧云：『不會。』峯曰：『君子千里同風。』僧回舉似沙，沙云：『山頭老漢，蹉過也不知。』」師云：「叢林異解，莫知其數。有云：雪峯纔接得書，無語識破他，開見是白紙，呈似大眾，更說道理，是兩重蹉過了也。有云：雪峯見處，未必不及玄沙；玄沙見處，未必過於雪峯。此二父子相見，遞相唱和，貴要話行。有云：玄沙若無此語，佛法爭到今日？殊不本其宗源，但恣識情計度，如斯見解，自誤猶可，誤他別人。同安今日不惜眉毛，布施大眾。雪峯不道無長處，既被玄沙識破，直至如今雪不出。」

Because a monk arrived bearing a letter, the Master ascended the hall and brought up: “Xuansha had a monk deliver a letter up to Xuefeng. Xuefeng ascended the hall, opened it, and saw three sheets of blank paper. He then showed them to the assembly and said, ‘Do you understand?’ The monk said, ‘I do not understand.’ Xuefeng said, ‘Gentlemen a thousand miles apart share the same wind.’ The monk returned and related this to Xuansha. Xuansha said, ‘That old fellow on the mountain peak missed it without even knowing it.’” The Master said: “In the monastic groves, divergent interpretations are beyond counting. Some say: ‘The moment Xuefeng received the letter, he saw through him without a word; opening it to see blank paper, he presented it to the assembly and spoke further of principles—this was missing it twice over.’ Some say: ‘Xuefeng’s view is not necessarily inferior to Xuansha’s; Xuansha’s view is not necessarily superior to Xuefeng’s. These two, father and son, met and echoed each other, valuing the circulation of their words.’ Some say: ‘If Xuansha had not had these words, how would the Buddha Dharma have reached today?’ They utterly fail to trace the ancestral source, merely indulging the reckonings of their cognitive consciousness. Such views might be pardonable if they only deluded oneself, but they delude others. Today, Tong'an does not spare his eyebrows to bestow a gift upon the assembly: It cannot be said that Xuefeng lacked merit, but having been seen through by Xuansha, down to the present day he cannot clear himself.”