圓悟佛果禪師語錄 17.41

17.41

舉：「雪峯會下有一僧，辭去在山中卓庵，多時不剃頭，自作一柄木杓，溪邊舀水喫。時有僧見問：『如何是祖師西來意？』主竪起杓子云：『溪深杓柄長。』僧歸舉似雪峯，峯云：『也甚奇怪。』峯一日與侍者將剃刀去，纔相見便問：『道得即不剃汝頭。』主便取水洗頭，峯便與伊剃却。」師拈云：「庵主雖生鐵鑄就，雪峯柰是本分鉗鎚，當初若一向顢頇，爭見驚天動地。還委悉麼？金鏃慣調曾百戰，鐵鞭多力恨無酬。」

He cited: "Under Xuefeng's assembly there was a monk who took his leave and went to erect a hermitage in the mountains. For a long time he did not shave his head. He made a wooden ladle himself and ladled water at the creek to drink. At that time, a monk saw him and asked, 'What is the meaning of the Patriarch coming from the West?' The master [of the hermitage] held up the ladle and said, 'The creek is deep, and the ladle's handle is long.' The monk returned and related this to Xuefeng. Xuefeng said, 'Quite extraordinary.' One day Xuefeng and his attendant went taking a razor. As soon as they met, he asked, 'If you can speak, I will not shave your head.' The master then took water to wash his head, and Xuefeng shaved it off for him."
The Master critiqued this, saying, "Although the hermitage master was cast of pig iron, Xuefeng was indeed the pincers and hammer of our fundamental lot. Had they originally been completely muddled, how could one see what shakes heaven and moves earth? Do you understand thoroughly? 'With golden arrowheads long accustomed to a hundred battles, / The iron whip has mighty strength, regretting there is no rival.'"