大慧普覺禪師語錄 4.15

4.15

張侍郎至上堂，僧問：「大顛為韓文公趁却首座，意旨如何？」師云：「鮎魚上竹竿，一日一千里。」進云：「學人未了，乞師垂慈。」師云：「更要第二杓惡水在？」進云：「只如首座也扣齒三下，過在甚麼處？」師云：「過在扣齒處。」進云：「莫謗他首座好。」師云：「爾見箇甚麼道理，便恁麼道？」進云：「誰知遠煙浪，別有好思量。」師云：「爾莫謗徑山好。」進云：「今日侍郎或問：『和尚春秋多少？』又且如何？」師云：「向他道百十二歲。」進云：「喚作謗徑山得麼？」師云：「爾又謗侍郎也。」乃云：「古人道：『我宗無語句，實無一法與人。』恁麼道，早是通身浸在屎窖裏了也，那堪更蹋步向前如之若何，問向上向下、三要三玄、銀盌裏盛雪、北斗裏藏身意旨如何？豈不是屎窖傍邊更掘屎窖？雖然如是，若於屎窖中知些氣息，方知三世諸佛、歷代祖師、天下老和尚、古往今來一切知識，盡在屎窖裏轉大法輪；其或未然，切忌向屎窖裏著到。」

Minister Zhang arrived. Ascending the hall, a monk asked: "When Dadian drove out the head monk for Master Han Wen, what was the meaning?" The Master said: "A catfish climbs a bamboo pole: a thousand li in a single day." The monk continued: "The student does not understand; I beg the Master to extend compassion." The Master said: "Do you want a second ladle of dirty water?" The monk continued: "Just as the head monk also clicked his teeth three times, where was the fault?" The Master said: "The fault lay in clicking his teeth." The monk continued: "It would be best not to slander that head monk." The Master said: "What principle do you see, that you speak like this?" The monk continued: "Who knows that beyond the distant smoke and waves, there is another fine thought?" The Master said: "It would be best for you not to slander Jingshan." The monk continued: "If today the Minister should ask, 'How old is the Master?' how about that?" The Master said: "Tell him: 'One hundred and twelve years old.'" The monk continued: "Can this be called slandering Jingshan?" The Master said: "You are slandering the Minister again." Then he said: "The ancients said: 'Our school has no verbal phrases, and truly not a single dharma is given to people.' Speaking like this is already to have one's whole body soaked in a cesspool; how much more so to step forward asking 'how' and 'what,' asking about the upward and downward, the three essentials and three mysteries, silver bowls holding snow, and the meaning of hiding the body in the Northern Dipper? Is this not digging another cesspool beside a cesspool? Even though it is like this, if you catch a bit of the scent within the cesspool, only then will you know that the buddhas of the three times, the successive generations of patriarchs, the venerable old masters under heaven, and all good spiritual friends of past and present, are all turning the great wheel of the Dharma within the cesspool. If not yet so, by all means avoid fixing your footing in the cesspool."