圓悟佛果禪師語錄 12.5

12.5

小參：「當陽一著千聖莫覷，面門一機作家罔措，恁麼恁麼，不恁麼不恁麼，拈向一邊；行棒行喝，擊石火閃電光，放過一著。正當恁麼時，水泄不通，乾坤坐斷，有眼不可見，有耳不可聞，有口不可辨，有心不可思，任是通身是眼，盡乾坤大地、草木叢林、纖洪長短一一交羅，作無量無邊神通妙用，到這裏不消一剳。且道：具什麼道理便恁麼奇特，便恁麼直截，能恁麼坐斷？淨裸裸赤灑灑，全身獨露，便擔荷得行透得出，三世諸佛六代祖師乃至天下老和尚，只得飲氣吞聲目瞪口呿。雖然如是，即今諸人在這裏作箇什麼？山僧更據箇什麼說話即得？是則是，太殺不近人情，不免放一線道。還委悉麼？四海如今清似鏡，彎虹直氣透青霄。」

At an informal gathering [the Master said]: “The single move directly facing the sun—the thousand sages cannot catch sight of it; the single dynamic at the face-gate—expert masters are helpless. ‘Like this, like this; not like this, not like this’—cast them to one side; applying the staff and applying the shout, the spark struck from flint and the flash of lightning—let that move pass. Right at such a time, not a drop of water leaks through, heaven and earth are cut off; having eyes, it cannot be seen; having ears, it cannot be heard; having a mouth, it cannot be distinguished; having a mind, it cannot be thought. Even if the entire body is eyes, and throughout heaven, earth, the great earth, grasses, trees, and monastic groves, fine and coarse, long and short are each and every one interwoven, performing measureless, boundless supernatural powers and wondrous functions—arriving here, they are not worth a single needle-prick. And tell me: possessing what principle is it so extraordinary, so straightforward, able to cut off like this? Clean and naked, stripped bare and free, the whole body exclusively exposed—then you can shoulder it, walk through, and penetrate out; the Buddhas of the three periods, the patriarchs of the six generations, down to the old venerable monks throughout the world can only swallow their breath, hold their tongues, stare with eyes wide, and gape with mouths open. Although this is so, right now, what are all of you doing here? What can this mountain monk base his words on to be right? True though it is, it is exceedingly contrary to human sentiment; I cannot avoid opening a line of path. Do you still understand in detail? The four seas are now clear as a mirror; the curved rainbow's upright vapor penetrates the blue sky.”