圓悟佛果禪師語錄 17.43

17.43

舉：「玄沙和尚到莆田縣，眾以百戲迎之，次日玄沙遂問小塘長老：『昨日許多喧鬧，向什麼處去？』小塘提起袈裟角示之，沙云：『料掉沒交涉。』大溈真如拈云：『大溈即不然。或有問：「昨日許多喧鬧向什麼處去？」遂鳴指一下，或有箇衲僧出云：「料掉沒交涉。」大溈却肯伊。何故？大丈夫漢，捋虎鬚也是本分。且道：利害在什麼處？』」師拈云：「二老宿雖是提振綱宗，要且貪觀天上月。而今或有箇出問道林：『適來許多喧鬧向什麼處去？』只對他道：『又是從頭起。』他若道：『料掉沒交涉。』劈脊便棒。何故？曹溪波浪如相似，無限平人被陸沈。」

He cited: "When the Venerable Xuansha arrived at Putian County, the multitude welcomed him with hundred-act spectacles. The next day, Xuansha asked Senior Monk Xiaotang, 'Where did all that clamour of yesterday go?' Xiaotang lifted the corner of his kāṣāya to show him. Xuansha said, 'Vainly flung about, with no connection whatsoever.' Dagui Zhenru critiqued this, saying, 'Dagui would not do so. If someone asked, "Where did all that clamour of yesterday go?" I would simply snap my fingers once. If a patch-robed monk came forth and said, "Vainly flung about, with no connection whatsoever," Dagui would instead approve of him. Why? A great fellow stroking the tiger's whiskers is also part of his fundamental lot. But tell me: where do the gains and losses lie?'"
The Master critiqued this, saying, "Although the two elder masters raised and invigorated the lineage essentials, they were still greedy to gaze at the moon in the sky. If someone were now to come forth and ask Daolin, 'Where did all that clamour just now go?', I would only tell him, 'Starting over from the beginning again.' If he said, 'Vainly flung about, with no connection whatsoever,' I would strike him with a staff right across the back. Why? 'If the waves of Caoxi are like this, / Countless ordinary people are drowned on dry land.'"