明覺禪師語錄 1.9

1.9

上堂，僧問：「如何是實學底事？」師云：「針劄不入。」進云：「乞師方便。」師云：「水到渠成。」問：「如何是教外別傳一句？」師云：「看看臘月盡。」學云：「恁麼則流芳去也。」師云：「瘂子喫苦瓜。」問：「言迹之興，異途之所由生。不犯鋒鋩，請師道。」師云：「誰家無白月清風？」進云：「還當也無？」師云：「土上加泥漢。」師乃云：「劍輪飛處日月沈輝，寶杖敲時乾坤失色，眾魔從茲膽裂，千聖由是眼開，其如二聽不圓，震迅雷而莫覺；孤根將敗，霈春雨以非滋。致使凡聖岐分、悟迷派列，奔馳七趣、泊沒四流，重業相纏，無有休日。爾諸禪德，覬善參詳，如人上山，各自努力。」

Ascending the hall, a monk asked: "What is the affair of true learning?" The master said: "A needle cannot pierce it." The monk continued: "I beg the master's upāya." The master said: "When the water comes, the channel is formed." A monk asked: "What is the phrase of the separate transmission outside the teachings?" The master said: "Look, look, the twelfth month is ending." The student said: "In that case, the sweet fragrance spreads." The master said: "A mute eating bitter gourd." A monk asked: "The arising of words and traces is that from which divergent paths are born. Without clashing with sharp edges, please, master, speak." The master said: "Whose house does not have the bright moon and cool breeze?" The monk continued: "Is it fitting or not?" The master said: "A fellow adding mud on top of dirt." The master then said: "Where the sword wheel flies, the sun and moon lose their brilliance; when the jeweled staff strikes, heaven and earth lose their color. From this the myriad demons have their gallbladders split; by this the thousand sages have their eyes opened. Yet if the two kinds of hearing are not complete, though swift thunder claps, one is unaware; if the solitary root is about to wither, though spring rain pours down, it provides no nourishment. This causes the separation of ordinary and sage, the sorting of awakening and delusion, rushing along the seven destinies, sinking into the four currents, entangling heavy karma without a day of rest. You Chan worthies, I hope you investigate well; like someone climbing a mountain, each make your own effort."