圓悟佛果禪師語錄 19.73

19.73

[Case] brought up: When Shushan was at Xiangyan's place in ordinary times, one day Xiangyan ascended the hall, and a monk asked: "How is it when one does not admire the various sages and does not value one's own spirit?" Xiangyan said: "The myriad workings cease, and the thousand sages do not carry [one]." Shushan made a gesture of vomiting. Xiangyan said: "Do you not approve, Dharma-uncle?" Shushan said: "It cannot be without fault." Xiangyan said: "Where does the fault lie?" Shushan said: "'The myriad workings cease' still leaves something remaining; 'the thousand sages do not carry [one]' is also attained from others." Xiangyan said: "Could you say something, Dharma-uncle?" Shushan said: "Give me the Dharma seat, and I will speak for you." Thereupon Xiangyan had him ascend the seat, and asked him as before. Shushan said: "Why not say: 'Approbation and consent cannot be whole'?" Xiangyan said: "What is approved, and what is consented to?" Shushan said: "Approving is approving those various sages; consenting is consenting to one's own spirit." Xiangyan said: "For you to speak like this, Dharma-uncle, you must suffer diarrhea for thirty years before you get it." Later, while dwelling at Shushan, he was constantly afflicted with stomach reflux. One day he brought this up and asked Jingqing: "'This sick monk says approbation and consent cannot be whole'—how do you understand this, person of the Way?" Jingqing said: "Fully returning to approbation and consent." Shushan said: "What about 'cannot be whole'?" Jingqing said: "Herein there is no path of approbation." Shushan said: "Only now do you accord with this sick monk's intention."