圓悟佛果禪師語錄 10.12

10.12

師云：「只恁麼，坐斷天下人舌頭；不恁麼，穿却本色衲僧鼻孔；恁麼中不恁麼，要辨龍蛇；不恁麼中却恁麼，要擒虎兕。離却四句外，更有什麼事？也許具一隻眼。何故？雙收雙放，雙暗雙明，同死同生，同得同失，也未為分外。雖然如是，猶是建立邊事。若據衲僧家自受用中，要且不然。只如衲僧家自受用處，還有人明得麼？若明不得，佛法無靈驗；若明得平，欺一切人去。今夜不妨向荒草裏合水和泥，和泥合水與諸人商量。豈不見南泉道：『祖佛不知有，狸奴白牯却知有。』又道：『爾當哆哆和和，何不自家究取，直待多知多解，却來與老和尚作頭抵。』又道：『喚作如如，早是變了也，今時人直得向異類中行。』又道：『學道者如癡似兀難得。』趙州道：『我見千百億箇漢子，盡是覓作佛底人，中間求箇無心道人不可得。』雲門大師道：『和尚子莫妄想，山是山水是水，僧是僧俗是俗，見拄杖子但喚作拄杖子，見燈籠但喚作燈籠，此謂之覿體全真。』只如恁麼處，還容人作得失解會麼？灼然論實不論虛，直得如狸奴白牯相似，直得如枯木朽株絕氣息，憨憨癡癡，瞢瞢𥋾𥋾，千佛出世他也不知，目覩瞿曇如黃葉相似，方始是生鐵鑄就，千人萬人羅籠他不住。只如獨脫一句作麼生道？莫謂無心云是道，無心猶隔一重關。」

The Master said: 'Just "so" cuts off the tongues of the people of the world; "not so" pierces the nostrils of patch-robed monks of true character; "not so" within "so" seeks to discern dragons from snakes; "so" within "not so" seeks to capture tigers and rhinos. Setting aside the four phrases, what else is there? One may also be permitted to possess a single eye. Why? Taking in both and releasing both, darkening both and brightening both, dying together and living together, gaining together and losing together—this is not beyond one's due. Although it is like this, it is still a matter on the side of establishment. If taking the self-enjoyment among patch-robed monks, it is definitely not so. As for the place of self-enjoyment among patch-robed monks, is there anyone who clarifies it? If one cannot clarify it, the Buddha Dharma has no spiritual efficacy; if one can clarify it, one completely looks down upon all people. Tonight I might as well mix water and stir mud, stir mud and mix water in the wild grass to discuss it with you all. Have you not seen Nanquan say: "Patriarchs and buddhas do not know it exists, but wildcats and white oxen do know it exists"? And he said: "When you babble like toddlers, why do you not investigate it for yourselves, instead of waiting until you have much knowledge and much understanding, and then coming to butt heads with the old monk?" And he said: "Calling it 'suchness' has already altered it; people of today must go straight into the midst of different species." And he said: "Practitioners of the Dao who are like fools and blockheads are hard to find." Zhaozhou said: "I have seen thousands, hundreds, and millions of fellows, all of whom are people seeking to become buddhas; among them, seeking a single Daoist of no-mind cannot be attained." Great Master Yunmen said: "Venerable monks, do not have false thoughts: mountains are mountains, waters are waters, monks are monks, laypeople are laypeople; seeing a staff just call it a staff, seeing a lantern just call it a lantern—this is called directly facing the substance and being entirely real." Just at such a place, is anyone allowed to make an understanding of gain and loss? Truly it discusses the real and not the empty, directly being like wildcats and white oxen, directly being like dry wood and rotten stumps devoid of breath, foolish and simple, dim and dazed; even if a thousand buddhas appear in the world, they do not know it, regarding Gautama just like yellow leaves. Only then are they cast of pig iron, whom thousands and tens of thousands of people cannot snare or cage. How do you speak a phrase of solitary emancipation? Do not say that no-mind is called the Dao; / No-mind is still separated by a double barrier.'