圓悟佛果禪師語錄 20.153

20.153

如來涅槃日，娑羅雙樹間，放出三昧火，闍維金色身。有條攀條，無條攀例。故褒山佛眼禪師，道播四海、名聞九州，二十年間三據大剎，退席褒嶺，宴坐鍾山，以平生所受用栗棘蓬，驅耕夫之牛；以楊岐所付囑金剛圈，奪饑人之食。傳持一大事，提振向上機，衲子雲從，諸方景慕，豈謂一彈指頃，坐斷報化佛頭；談笑之間，遽失人天正眼。今則乾坤廓落，人境蕭條，雪映高山，風清大野，圓頂後相放萬里神光。大眾！正與麼時還委悉麼？看取亘天紅焰裏，華發優曇大地春。

On the day the Tathāgata entered nirvāṇa, / between the twin śāla trees, / he released the samādhi fire, / and jhāpita'd his golden body. / When there is a precedent, follow the precedent; when there is no precedent, follow custom. The late Chan Master Foyan of Mount Bao spread the Way across the four seas, and his name was heard throughout the nine provinces. In twenty years he held three great monasteries; having retired from the seat at Mount Bao, he sat in ease on Zhongshan. With the chestnut burr he employed throughout his life, he drove off the plowman's ox; with the diamond cage entrusted to him by Yangqi, he snatched away the starving man's food. Transmitting and maintaining the One Great Matter, uplifting the transcendent dynamic, patch-robed monks gathered like clouds, and all quarters looked up to him in admiration. Who would have thought that in the snap of a finger, he would cut off the head of the reward and transformation buddhas; and in the midst of talking and laughing, we would suddenly lose the true eye of men and devas? Now heaven and earth are vast and empty, person and environment are desolate; snow glistens on the lofty mountain, wind blows clear across the great wilderness; behind the round crown of his head, the sign radiates ten thousand miles of divine light. Great assembly! At just such a time, do you fully understand? Look: within the red flames reaching across the sky, / the udumbara blossoms forth, and the great earth turns to spring!