圓悟佛果禪師語錄 6.14

6.14

Pointing to the Dharma seat, he said: "Sumeru Lamp King Tathāgata currently abides upon this seat, radiating great light and having already preached the Dharma. Do you still hear it? If you have not yet heard it, since you face the furnace without shrinking from the fire, you must also turn around the barrier on the crown." He then ascended the seat, brought forward incense, and said: "This stick of incense is reverently offered on behalf of our current Emperor to solemnise the sagely longevity. Respectfully I pray that his brilliant culture equals the two luminaries, his sagely calculations match heaven and earth, eclipsing the merit of Shaokang in restoring the footsteps of Yu, and accomplishing the enterprise of Xuan and Guang in reviving the House of Han. May the myriad states submit to his sagely transformation, and all directions lay down their weapons of war. This stick of incense is reverently offered on behalf of the Prefectural Magistrate, Pacification Commissioner, Yan Kang [scholar], Vice Magistrate, Academicians, and all civil and military officials of the entire prefecture. I humbly pray that your ranks be as firm as great boulders and your merits aid the guardian city; holding provincial posts, may you rival Lu, Wei, Jin, and Qi; ascending to the imperial halls, may you match Gao, Kui, Ji, and Xie. This stick of incense—even the Buddha's Eye cannot peer at it. For ten years in Jiang and Huai I endured every hardship; one day at Baiyun, the lacquer bucket was smashed open. Having unworthily presided over six great monasteries, this is the seventh time I offer this stick of incense, reverently dedicated to Chan Master Yan, the twelfth generation of the Zhenhui Chan Monastery on Mount Wuzu in Qizhou, in order to repay the milk of the Dharma." He then gathered his robes and ascended the seat. The Venerable of Jiaoshan struck the gavel and said: "The assembly of dragons and elephants at the Dharma feast should observe the primary meaning." The Master then said: "Just before ascending this seat, the primary meaning was already established of itself. Now, distinguishing and explaining beneath the gavel, who knows what order of meaning this is? Is there anyone who has forged into a single piece and understands how to observe it? Try coming forth before the assembly to cite it and see." A monk asked: "Gazing toward the clouds, Deyun does not descend the Wonderful High Peak; the supreme transformation is inescapable, and Mount Jin extends a single line of path. Please, Venerable Monk, speak a phrase of repaying grace." The Master said: "May we eternally wish for myriad years of life for the sagely and enlightened sovereign." The monk continued: "It can be called: the imperial power is as heavy as hills and mountains, the sovereign's grace as vast as the cosmos." The Master said: "It causes the mind to become even more like iron." The monk continued: "The golden branches ever flourish in thousand-year splendour; the jade leaves ever remain fragrant through ten thousand ages of spring." The Master said: "Once again an ācārya joins in bearing witness." The monk continued: "Formerly when Minister Pei entered the temple, Shishuang borrowed his tablet to bestow compassion; today when your excellency's carriage personally arrives, I wonder how they will meet?" The Master said: "Just completing a ready-made gong'an." The monk continued: "Auspicious vapours descend straight from heaven; fortunate clouds originally arrive from beside the sun." The Master said: "Cast your eye high." The monk continued: "Just as the Venerable Monk opens the hall in six places to preach the Dharma for others, is there still anyone who approves?" The Master said: "All at once, they do not approve." The monk continued: "Why do they not approve?" The Master said: "Solitary permission." The Master then said: "The Great Way has neither center nor edge; the supreme reality transcends spoken words. The Buddhas cannot present it; the Patriarchs cannot transmit it. Penetrating sound and penetrating form, it cuts off all obstruction; covering earth and covering heaven, it has no front or back. How could it merely be attaining verification at the blow of a staff or accepting responsibility beneath a shout? Even if a thousand eyes were suddenly to open, one would still inevitably cling to grasses and attach to trees. Arriving here, one must be someone whom a needle cannot pierce, whom the wind cannot blow over, who cuts off the essential crossing and allows neither ordinary nor sagely to pass through, before one can attain it. Therefore, at the assembly on Vulture Peak, the butcher Guang'e put down his cleaver and said: 'I am one among the thousand Buddhas.' In the Great Assembly, the mighty demon king said: 'I will wait until all sentient beings have completely attained Buddhahood, and only then will I generate the bodhicitta.' Is this not the trampling of dragons and elephants, the roaring stretch of the lion, defeating the foe and startling the flock, harboring the spirit of a great hero—only then can one accept and bear it! Therefore it is said: 'One who kills without blinking becomes a Buddha on the spot; one who becomes a Buddha on the spot kills without blinking.' This must be left to extraordinary persons, who wield extraordinary wisdom, reveal extraordinary dynamic sharpness, and display extraordinary functioning. Just at such a moment, how do you speak within the extraordinary realm? Do you know? Reverently we wish the sagely sovereign limitless life; may the rivers be clear and the seas calm, rejoicing in peace and prosperity."