大慧普覺禪師語錄 4.2

4.2

上堂，僧問：「壁立萬仞，還許商量也無？」師云：「壁立萬仞，不許商量。」進云：「也知和尚赤心片片。」師云：「既知，更問箇甚麼？」進云：「恁麼則真箇壁立萬仞去也。」師云：「喫飯咬著一粒沙。」進云：「若然者，却許學人進前三步也。」師云：「爾不會，却退後三步始得。」乃云：「摩竭提國猶在半途，少室峯前全無巴鼻，談玄說妙好肉剜瘡，舉古明今拋沙撒土，爭似饑餐渴飲、閑坐困眠，從從教四序推移，都不干預我事。雖然如是，也須實到這箇田地始得。只如實到這箇田地底，如何親近？」喝一喝云：「炙瘡瘢上不可更著艾炷去也。」

Ascending the hall, a monk asked, "When standing like a sheer wall ten thousand cubits high, is discussion still permitted or not?" The Master said, "Standing like a sheer wall ten thousand cubits high, no discussion is permitted." [The monk] advanced and said, "I also know the Venerable's piece-by-piece sincere heart." The Master said, "Since you know, what more do you ask?" [The monk] advanced and said, "In that case, it truly is standing like a sheer wall ten thousand cubits high." The Master said, "Eating rice and biting on a grain of sand." [The monk] advanced and said, "If that is so, then do you permit this student to advance three paces?" The Master said, "You do not understand; you must step back three paces before you can have it." He then said, "Magadha is still halfway along the road; before the peak of Shaoshi there is no handle at all. Talking of the profound and speaking of the wondrous is like gouging wounds into healthy flesh; citing the past to illuminate the present is scattering sand and throwing dirt. How can that compare to eating when hungry, drinking when thirsty, sitting at leisure and sleeping when tired, letting the four seasons roll on without interfering in my affairs at all? Even though it is like this, you must actually reach this ground before you can have it. But as for one who has actually reached this ground, how do you approach them?" He gave a shout and said, "Upon the scar of a moxibustion burn, one cannot place another moxa cone!"