明覺禪師語錄 1.3

1.3

師在萬壽，開堂日白槌了，師云：「宗乘一唱，三藏絕詮；祖令當行，十方坐斷。其有達士不避死生，眨上眉毛出眾相見。」問：「人天普集，佇聽雷音，學人上來，乞師垂示。」師云：「十萬八千不是遠。」進云：「恁麼則大眾霑恩也。」師云：「後五日看。」問：「師唱誰家曲，宗風嗣阿誰？」師云：「分明記取。」進云：「恁麼則昔日智門，今朝和尚。」師云：「有甚麼交涉？」問：「如何是和尚為人一句？」師云：「量才補職。」學云：「謝師方便。」師云：「自領出去。」師乃云：「一問一答，總未有事在，直饒乾坤大地草木叢林，盡為衲僧，異口同聲各置百千問難，也不消長老彈指一下，並乃高低普應、前後無差，曠祖佛之妙靈、廓天人之幽迹，如是則何假覺城東際，五眾咸居古佛廟前，此時參畢。」

When the master was at Wanshou, after striking the gavel on the day of opening the hall, the master said: "As soon as the ancestral vehicle is sung, the tripiṭaka ceases all exposition. When the ancestral command is put into practice, the ten directions are cut off. If there are eminent people who do not evade life and death, let them twitch their eyebrows and step forward from the assembly to meet face-to-face." A monk asked: "Humans and devas gather everywhere, waiting to hear the sound of thunder. A student steps forward and begs the master to give instruction." The master said: "One hundred and eight thousand is not far." The monk continued: "In that case, the great assembly is moistened with grace." The master said: "Watch after five days." A monk asked: "Whose tune does the master sing? Whose ancestral style do you succeed?" The master said: "Remember it clearly." The monk continued: "In that case, formerly Zhimen, today the upādhyāya." The master said: "What connection is there?" A monk asked: "What is a phrase by which the upādhyāya guides people?" The master said: "Measure ability and assign office." The student said: "Thank you, master, for your upāya." The master said: "Take it yourself and get out." The master then said: "One question and one answer—still nothing of the matter has taken place yet. Even if the grasses, trees, and monastic groves throughout heaven, earth, and the great plains were all to become patch-robed monks, and with different mouths but the same voice each raise hundreds of thousands of difficult questions, it would not take more than a single snap of this elder's fingers, and high and low would be universally answered, before and after without discrepancy, making vast the wondrous spirit of the ancestral buddhas and widening the subtle traces of devas and humans. If it is like this, what need is there for the eastern border of the City of Enlightenment, or for the five assemblies to all dwell before the old buddha's shrine? At this moment, your interview is finished."