[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [圓悟佛果禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997) › 11.7 # 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 11.7 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 11.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.11.7) 益國夫人請小參云：「目前無一法，綿密有誰知，格外列千差，到頭須自用。若自用得去，改禾莖為粟柄，易短壽作長年，變大地作黃金，攪旻河為酥酪，不為分外。且如綿密處若辨得，用處即是綿密，綿密即是用處，所以道：『世尊三昧迦葉不知，迦葉三昧阿難不知，阿難三昧商那和修不知，商那和修三昧優波菊多不知。』既是各各不知，何故却相傳受？到這裏不妨誵訛處直是誵訛，綿密處直是綿密，若會，山僧適來答這僧問道：『和尚三昧什麼人得知？』答云：『山僧自知。』然雖如是，大似把手上高山，未免傍觀者哂。更有一著，諸人往往向知不知處作活計。若道知去，此人只具一隻眼；若道不知去，此人亦只具一隻眼。離却知不知，正當恁麼時如何？大千沙界海中漚，一切聖賢如電拂。」復舉：「外道問佛：『昨日說什麼法？』世尊云：『說定法。』外道云：『今日說什麼法？』世尊云：『說不定法。』外道云：『昨日定，今日為什麼不定？』世尊云：『昨日定，今日不定。』」師云：「大小世尊，龍頭蛇尾。若是天寧即不然，忽有問：『早朝說什麼法？』對云：『不定法。』『即今說什麼法？』對云：『定法。』或云：『早辰不定，而今為什麼定？』即向他道：一釣便上。」 > At an informal gathering requested by the Lady of Yi State, the Master said: 'Before the eyes there is not a single dharma; who knows its dense intimacy? Outside the pattern a thousand differences are arrayed; in the end one must apply it oneself. If you can apply it yourself, changing rice stalks into millet stems, converting short life into long years, transforming the great earth into yellow gold, churning the Heavenly River into clarified butter, it is not beyond your lot. Moreover, if the dense and intimate place can be recognized, the place of function is precisely the dense and intimate, and the dense and intimate is precisely the place of function. Therefore it is said: "The samādhi of the World-Honoured One is not known by Kāśyapa; the samādhi of Kāśyapa is not known by Ānanda; the samādhi of Ānanda is not known by Śāṇavāsa; the samādhi of Śāṇavāsa is not known by Upagupta." Since each of them did not know it, why was it transmitted and received? Arriving here, it does not hurt that where it is dubious it is utterly dubious, and where it is dense and intimate it is utterly dense and intimate. If you understand, when this mountain monk just now answered that monk's question, "Who can know the Venerable's samādhi?" I replied, "This mountain monk knows it himself." Although it is thus, it is much like pulling someone's hand up a high mountain; one cannot avoid the sneers of bystanders. There is yet another move: people often make their livelihood in knowing and not knowing. If one says they know, this person possesses only a single eye; if one says they do not know, this person also possesses only a single eye. Leaving aside knowing and not knowing, right at such a time, how is it? The trichiliocosm of sand-worlds is a foam bubble on the ocean; all sages and worthies are like a flash of lightning.' He further cited: 'A non-Buddhist asked the Buddha, "What Dharma did you preach yesterday?" The World-Honoured One said, "I preached the fixed Dharma." The non-Buddhist said, "What Dharma do you preach today?" The World-Honoured One said, "I preach the unfixed Dharma." The non-Buddhist said, "Yesterday it was fixed; why is it unfixed today?" The World-Honoured One said, "Yesterday it was fixed; today it is unfixed."' The Master said: 'The great and small World-Honoured One, a dragon's head and a snake's tail. If it were Tianning, it would not be so. If someone suddenly asks, "What Dharma did you preach this morning?" I would answer, "The unfixed Dharma." "What Dharma do you preach right now?" I would answer, "The fixed Dharma." If they say, "This morning it was unfixed; why is it fixed now?" I would immediately say to them: "Taken on the hook as soon as cast!"' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 11.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.11.6) - [Next: 11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.11.8) - [Up: 11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.11) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997~en-mt.11.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.11.7) · Pramāṇa