大慧普覺禪師語錄 4.11

4.11

上堂，僧問：「有佛處不得住時如何？」師云：「住則挅根。」進云：「無佛處急走過時如何？」師云：「起動闍梨。」進云：「教學人向甚麼處行履？」師云：「脫却籠頭，卸却角默。」進云：「三千里外逢人不得錯舉時如何？」師云：「錯錯。」問：「一百二十日夏已滿出門，或有人問：『如何是徑山道底？』且作麼生答他？」師云：「徑山曾道甚麼來？」進云：「爭奈喚作竹篦則觸，不喚作竹篦則背。」師云：「爾作麼生會？」僧喝一喝云：「三十年後大有人笑在。」師云：「何必三十年後，即今大有人笑爾。」乃云：「尋常向爾諸人道，喚作竹篦則觸，不喚作竹篦則背，不得向舉起處承當，不得向意根下卜度，不得下語，不得良久。或有人問：『畢竟如何？』向他道：『也無畢竟，也無如何。』正當恁麼時，四楞塌地掇在諸人面前，眼辦手親底一逴逴得，便能羅籠三界提拔四生；其或未然，自是爾諸人根性遲鈍，且莫錯怪徑山好。」

Ascending the hall, a monk asked, "What is it like where there is a Buddha and one must not stay?" The Master said, "To stay is to chop the root." [The monk] advanced and said, "What is it like when one runs quickly past where there is no Buddha?" The Master said, "Troubling the ācārya." [The monk] advanced and said, "Where do you instruct this student to practice?" The Master said, "Take off the halter, remove the muzzle." [The monk] advanced and said, "What is it like when meeting someone three thousand miles away and not mistakenly citing it?" The Master said, "Mistaken, mistaken." [A monk] asked, "When the one hundred and twenty days of summer are complete and one goes out the gate, if someone asks, 'What is it that Jingshan said?' how should one answer him?" The Master said, "What did Jingshan ever say?" [The monk] advanced and said, "How can it be that calling it a bamboo comb violates, while not calling it a bamboo comb opposes?" The Master said, "How do you understand it?" The monk gave a shout and said, "Thirty years from now, many will laugh!" The Master said, "Why wait for thirty years? Right now, many are laughing at you!" He then said, "I usually tell you people: calling it a bamboo comb violates, while not calling it a bamboo comb opposes; you must not take it up where it is held up, you must not calculate it under the faculty of intention, you must not give a phrase, you must not make a pause. If someone asks, 'Ultimately, what is it?' say to him: 'There is neither an ultimate nor a what.' Just at such a time, standing firmly on four square sides right in front of you all, those with keen eyes and deft hands who grasp it in a flash can ensnare the three realms and liberate the four modes of birth. But if that is not yet so, it is naturally because your own faculties and natures are dull and slow; you must not mistakenly blame Jingshan."