圓悟佛果禪師語錄 11.14

11.14

益國夫人請小參，僧問：「最初威音王，末後樓至佛，未審威音參見什麼人？」師云：「參見無面目底。」僧云：「只如無面目人，復見阿誰？」師云：「狂狗趁塊。」僧云：「爭奈拄杖子在學人手裏。」師云：「爾試用看。」僧云：「到這裏直得無言可說、無理可伸。」師云：「只得七成。」僧云：「可謂師承不立，遞代相傳。」師云：「一刀截斷。」僧云：「既然如是，和尚何用更覓白雲？」師云：「爾道威音樓至佛，即今在什麼處？」僧云：「一穿穿却。」師云：「頂𩕳上更添一隻眼始得。」師云：「三世諸佛也恁麼，歷代祖師也恁麼，德山也恁麼，臨濟也恁麼，天寧豈可不恁麼？所以早朝也恁麼，而今也恁麼。且道：恁麼恁麼是箇什麼？還委悉麼？所以道：『向上一路千聖不傳，學者勞形如猿捉影。』只如遇達者而前，作麼生提掇？作麼生諳悉？說理性玄妙得麼？喝一喝得麼？劃一劃得麼？口吧吧地得麼？六六三十六九九八十一得麼？且總不是這箇道理。況此乃千聖不傳之妙，這一片田地，唯佛與佛乃能知之。畢竟知後，還傳與人，不傳與人。若傳得去，龍頭蛇尾；若傳不得，千聖萬聖，一箇箇到這裏，若佛若祖，於一切人機境不到處發明，於一切人用不及處提掇，一切人情識計較不得處坐斷千差路頭。雖然，拈一句，簇錦攢華攢華簇錦，可以趣向及至到那畔。若也承當則沒交涉，到這裏有棒、有喝、有權、有實、有殺、有活、有擒、有縱，唯許諸佛知，不許諸佛會。既許諸佛知，為什麼不許諸佛會？會則傳得去也，所以要人心機絕智境，忘得失、遣是非，一時落謝萬境樅然，而無何礙。可以與千聖把手共行，同用同證，一切處光輝，一切處澄湛去，抽釘拔楔解粘去縛。只如今山僧對眾恁麼說，還當得千聖不傳底麼？灼然當不得。既當不得，又說作什麼？千人萬人管取不奈何。所以古人道：『雖然點破綱宗，意在文彩未生時，要一覷便透、一咬便斷。』若也未會，切不得疑著。如今不惜性命，向這裏與諸人通箇消息。還會麼？千聖共傳無底鉢，大千沙界一浮漚。」

The Lady of the State of Yi requested an informal gathering. A monk asked, "The very first was the King of the Majestic Voice, and the very last is Buddha Ruci; I wonder, whom did the King of the Majestic Voice study under and meet?" The Master said, "He studied under and met the one without face or features." The monk said, "As for the person without face or features, whom in turn did he meet?" The Master said, "A mad dog chasing a dirt clod." The monk said, "What can be done about the staff being in this student's hands?" The Master said, "Try using it and see." The monk said, "Arriving here, one is completely reduced to having no words that can be spoken, no principle that can be presented." The Master said, "You only have seven tenths." The monk said, "It may be called not establishing any lineage transmission, yet passing it on from generation to generation." The Master said, "Cut off with a single sword slash." The monk said, "Since it is like this, why must the Venerable further seek White Cloud?" The Master said, "Tell me, where are the Buddhas Majestic Voice and Ruci right now?" The monk said, "Pierced through at a single stroke." The Master said, "Only when an eye is added atop the crown of your head will you attain it." The Master said, "The Buddhas of the three times are just thus; the successive generations of patriarchs are also just thus; Deshan was also just thus; Linji was also just thus; how could Tianning not be just thus? Therefore, in the early morning it was just thus, and now it is also just thus. But tell me: what is this 'just thus, just thus'? Do you fully understand yet? Therefore it is said: 'The transcendent path is not transmitted by the thousand sages; learners exhaust their bodies like apes grasping at shadows.' If you were to encounter a realized one face to face, how would you bring it forth? How would you thoroughly know it? Can you attain it by explaining the principle and talking of the profound and wondrous? Can you attain it by giving a shout? Can you attain it by drawing a line? Can you attain it by babbling on with the mouth? Can you attain it by 'six times six is thirty-six, nine times nine is eighty-one'? In short, none of this is that principle. Furthermore, this is the wonder not transmitted by the thousand sages; this one patch of ground only a Buddha together with a Buddha can know. After having known it, in the end is it transmitted to others or not transmitted to others? If it could be transmitted, it would be a dragon's head and snake's tail; if it cannot be transmitted, the thousand sages and myriad sages each and every one arriving here, whether Buddha or patriarch, clarify it where no person's dynamic situation can reach, bring it forth where no person's functioning can extend, and cut off the paths of the thousand differentiations where no person's emotional consciousness can calculate. Even so, bringing forth a phrase, gathering brocade and heaping flowers, heaping flowers and gathering brocade, one can head toward it; yet when arriving at that side, if you try to take it upon yourself, you will have no connection. Arriving here, there are staff, shout, provisional, real, killing, giving life, seizing, and releasing; it is only permitted that the Buddhas know it, not permitted that the Buddhas understand it. Since it is permitted that the Buddhas know it, why is it not permitted that the Buddhas understand it? If they understood it, it could be transmitted! Therefore, what is needed is for people's mental machinations to be cut off from cognitive realms, forgetting gain and loss, letting go of right and wrong; all at once falling away, the myriad realms stand tall and distinct, yet without any obstruction. Then you can walk hand in hand with the thousand sages, sharing the same function and the same realization, shining in all places, clear and tranquil in all places, pulling out nails and drawing out pegs, untying stickiness and releasing bonds. Just as the mountain monk speaks to the assembly like this right now, can this match what the thousand sages do not transmit? Clearly it cannot match it. Since it cannot match it, why speak of it? Thousands and myriads of people are bound to have no way out. Therefore an ancient said: 'Although the essential guidelines have been pointed out, the intention lies before patterns and colors emerge; one must see through at a single glance and bite through at a single bite.' If you have not yet understood, by no means give rise to doubt about it. Now, sparing neither life nor limb, I disclose a message to all of you right here. Do you understand yet? / The thousand sages together transmit the bottomless bowl; / The great chiliocosm of sands is a single floating bubble."