大慧普覺禪師語錄 3.21

3.21

上堂，僧問：「大修行底人還落因果也無？前百丈云：『不落因果。』為甚麼墮野狐身？」師云：「逢人但恁麼舉。」進云：「只如後百丈道：『不昧因果。』為甚麼脫野狐身？」師云：「逢人但恁麼舉。」進云：「或有人問徑山：『大修行底人還落因果也無？』未審和尚向他道甚麼？」師云：「向他道：『逢人但恁麼舉。』」乃云：「大修行人落因果。」以拂子擊禪床一下云：「也不離這箇消息。大修行人不落因果。」又擊禪床一下云：「也不離這箇消息。落與不落一筆句下，却喚甚麼作因果？」復擊禪床一下云：「也不離這箇消息。」乃舉起拂子召大眾云：「五百生前消息在，不須意下別搜求。」

Ascending the hall, a monk asked: "Does a person of great cultivation still fall under cause and effect or not? The former Baizhang said, 'He does not fall under cause and effect.' Why did he fall into the body of a wild fox?" The Master said: "Whenever meeting someone, just bring it up like this." The monk asked further: "Just as the latter Baizhang said, 'He is not blind to cause and effect,' why did he shed the body of a wild fox?" The Master said: "Whenever meeting someone, just bring it up like this." The monk asked further: "If someone were to ask Jingshan: 'Does a person of great cultivation still fall under cause and effect or not?' I wonder what the Venerable would say to him?" The Master said: "I would say to him: 'Whenever meeting someone, just bring it up like this.'" He then said: "'A person of great cultivation falls under cause and effect.'" Striking the meditation couch once with his fly-whisk, he said: "It is not apart from this news. 'A person of great cultivation does not fall under cause and effect.'" Striking the meditation couch once again, he said: "It is also not apart from this news. Falling and not falling are cancelled out with a single stroke of the brush; then what do you call cause and effect?" Striking the meditation couch once more, he said: "It is also not apart from this news." Then, raising the fly-whisk, he addressed the assembly: "The news from five hundred lives before is present; there is no need to search for it elsewhere in your mind."