圓悟佛果禪師語錄 14.15

14.15

五祖老師，平生孤峻，少許可人，乾嚗嚗地壁立，只靠此一著，常自云：「如倚一座須彌山，豈可落虛弄滑頭謾人。」把箇沒滋味鐵餕餡，劈頭拈似學者令咬嚼，須待渠桶底子脫，喪却如許惡知惡見，胸次不掛絲毫，透得淨盡，始可下手鍛煉，方禁得拳踢，然後示以金剛王寶劍，度其果能踐履負荷，淨然無一事，山是山水是水，更應轉向那邊，千聖籠羅不住處，便契乃祖已來所證傳持正法眼藏。及至應用為物，仍當驅耕夫牛、奪飢人食，證驗得十成無滲漏，即是本家道流也。

My late master Wuzu was solitary and steep throughout his life, approving of very few people. Standing like a dry, stark wall, he relied solely on this one move. He often said of himself: 'It is like leaning against Mount Sumeru; how could one fall into emptiness, play slick tricks, and deceive people?' Taking a tasteless iron-filled pastry, he thrust it at students right from the start to make them chew it; he had to wait until the bottom of their bucket fell out, losing all those bad bits of knowledge and bad views, without a single thread hanging in their chests, penetrating completely and utterly, before he would set about forging them so that they could withstand punches and kicks. Only then would he show them the Vajra King jewel sword. When he judged that they could truly practice and shoulder it, purely without a single concern—mountains being mountains and waters being waters—they still had to turn toward that other side, where a thousand sages cannot ensnare them; then they accorded with what has been realized and transmitted by the patriarchs since antiquity: the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. When it came to responding and functioning for the sake of living beings, one must still drive away the plowman's ox and snatch the hungry man's food; once certified and tested to be completely without leakage, then one is a fellow of the lineage.