圓悟佛果禪師語錄 10.3

10.3

蔣山寺小參，師云：「相逢不拈出，舉意便知有，萬人眾前顯瞞頇；不是目前機，亦非目前事，三千里外納敗闕。直得盡乾坤大地，無絲毫法可當情，靜悄悄地絕誵訛，千聖不敢疑議，致之諸佛頂𩕳上。到這裏，更說什麼行棒行喝、論正論偏、有語有默、絕玄絕妙、雙放雙收、同死同生，向窠窟裏作活計。正當恁麼時，且作麼生參究？且作麼生捉摸？作麼生拈弄？作麼生證入？若有一絲頭伎倆去，便乃見神見鬼；更不作一絲頭伎倆，未免墮在無事界裏。箇事如壺公瓢中自有天地日月，所以雪峯和尚道：『盡大地撮來，如粟米粒大。』又道：『盡大地是沙門一隻眼。』鹽官又道：『虛空為鼓，須彌為槌，什麼人打得？』南泉道：『王老師不打這破鼓。』法眼道：『王老師不打。』玄沙道：『深山巖崖千年萬年無人到處，還有佛法也無？』雲門大師道：『日裏來去日裏辨人，忽然教夜中取箇物，無日月燈不曾到處，作麼生取？』似此，若不通透，有纖毫隔礙，則如山如嶽；或若盡情透得，要行便行，更疑什麼？雖然如此，直須是真實到這箇田地，始得向萬丈懸崖處撒手，百尺竿頭進步。且道此事畢竟如何委悉？撞著道伴交肩過，君向潚湘我向秦。」下座。

At an informal gathering at Jiangshan Temple, the Master said: "Meeting together without bringing anything out, as soon as an intention arises, knowing it is there—this is to display muddleheadedness before an assembly of ten thousand. It is not the dynamic before the eyes, nor is it the matter before the eyes—this is to swallow defeat three thousand miles away. Even if the entire universe and great earth have not a single thread of Dharma that can be taken as an object, quietly cutting off all confusion, so that the thousand sages dare not harbor doubt or debate, placing it upon the crowns of all the buddhas—reaching this point, why speak further of wielding the staff or shouting, discussing the correct and the biased, having speech or silence, cutting off the mysterious and wondrous, simultaneously letting go and gathering in, dying together and living together—making a living within a nesting hollow? Right at such a time, how will you investigate it? How will you grasp it? How will you handle it? How will you realize and enter it? If you resort to the slightest bit of contrivance, you will immediately see ghosts and spirits; if you make not the slightest contrivance, you will inevitably fall into the realm of doing nothing. This matter is like Master Hugong's gourd, containing of itself heaven, earth, sun, and moon. Therefore Master Xuefeng said: 'Take the whole earth and gather it up, it is the size of a grain of millet.' He also said: 'The whole earth is the single eye of a śramaṇa.' Yanguan also said: 'Using empty space as a drum and Mount Sumeru as a drumstick, who can strike it?' Nanquan said: 'Old Teacher Wang does not strike this broken drum.' Fayan said: 'Old Teacher Wang does not strike it.' Xuansha said: 'In the deep mountains and rocky crags, where no one has reached for a thousand or ten thousand years, is there still Buddhadharma or not?' Great Master Yunmen said: 'Coming and going by daylight, distinguishing people by daylight—if suddenly told to fetch an object in the night, where sun, moon, and lamp have never reached, how will you fetch it?' Cases like these, if not thoroughly penetrated, with the slightest obstruction, are like mountains and peaks; but if you thoroughly penetrate them completely, when you need to go, you go—what more would you doubt? Even so, you must truly arrive at this ground before you can let go your hands at the edge of a ten-thousand-fathom cliff and take a step from the top of a hundred-foot pole. Tell me, after all, how to understand this matter thoroughly? Brushing shoulders as we pass our fellow travelers on the road: you head for Xiaoxiang, and I go to Qin. He stepped down from the seat."