黃龍慧南禪師語錄 1.3

1.3

師乃云：「未登此座，一事也無，纔登此座，便有許多問答。敢問大眾，只如一問一答，還當宗乘也無？若言當去，一大藏教豈無問答，為什麼道：教外別行，傳上根輩？若言不當，適來許多問答，圖箇什麼？行脚人當自開眼，勿使後悔。若論此事，非神通修證之能到，非多聞智慧之所談，三世諸佛只言自知，一大藏教詮註不及，是故靈山會上百千萬眾，獨許迦葉親聞，黃梅七百高僧，衣鉢分付行者，豈是汝等貪淫愚執勝負為能？夫出家者，須稟大夫決烈之志，截斷兩頭，歸家穩坐，然後大開門戶，運出自己家財，接待往來，賑濟孤露，方有少分報佛深恩。若不然者，無有是處。」以拂子擊禪床下座，乃布謝。

The Master then said: "Before ascending this seat, there was not a single matter. No sooner had I ascended this seat than there were so many questions and answers. I venture to ask the assembly: just as with this questioning and answering, does it correspond to the ancestral vehicle or not? If you say it corresponds, does the entire canon of teachings lack questions and answers? Why is it said: 'A separate transmission outside the teachings, transmitted to those of superior faculties'? If you say it does not correspond, then what were all those questions and answers just now aimed at? Itinerant practitioners must open their eyes for themselves, lest they have regrets later. If we speak of this matter, it is not something that supernormal powers or cultivation and realization can attain, nor is it something spoken of by extensive learning and wisdom. The buddhas of the three times only say they know it themselves; the entire canon of teachings cannot fully explain or comment upon it. Therefore, amidst the hundreds of thousands of assembly members on Gṛdhrakūṭa, only Kāśyapa was permitted to hear it intimately; the robe and bowl among the seven hundred eminent monks of Huangmei were bestowed upon the lay practitioner. How could this be something your greed, lust, foolish attachments, and competitiveness are capable of? Now, one who leaves household life must possess the resolute, fierce will of a great man, sever both extremes, sit firmly at home, and only then open wide the gates, bring forth his own family wealth, receive visitors, and relieve the destitute and exposed. Only then will there be a small portion of repaying the Buddha's profound grace. If it is not so, it is completely out of the question!" Striking the Chan seat with his fly-whisk, he descended from the seat and expressed thanks.