大慧普覺禪師語錄 7.22

7.22

示眾，舉：「僧問香嚴：『如何是道？』嚴云：『枯木裏龍吟。』僧云：『如何是道中人？』嚴云：『髑髏裏眼睛。』僧又問石霜：『如何是枯木裏龍吟？』霜云：『猶帶喜在。』『如何是髑髏裏眼睛？』霜云：『猶帶識在。』又問曹山：『如何是枯木裏龍吟？』山云：『血脈不斷。』『如何是髑髏裏眼睛？』山云：『乾不盡。』遂有頌云：『枯木龍吟真見道，髑髏無識眼初明，喜識盡時消息盡，當人那辯濁中清。』圜悟老人云：『一人透語滲漏，一人透情滲漏，一人透見滲漏。』」師云：「諸人還揀得出麼？若揀不出，不惜眉毛為諸人說破。香嚴透語滲漏，被語言縛殺；石霜透情滲漏，被情識使殺；曹山透見滲漏，被見聞覺知惑殺。分明說了，具眼者辯取。」

Instructing the assembly, he brought up the following: "A monk asked Xiangyan, 'What is the Way?' Xiangyan said, 'A dragon humming in a withered tree.' The monk said, 'What is a person in the Way?' Xiangyan said, 'Eyes in a skull.' The monk also asked Shishuang, 'What is a dragon humming in a withered tree?' Shishuang said, 'It still carries joy.' 'What are eyes in a skull?' Shishuang said, 'They still carry consciousness.' The monk also asked Caoshan, 'What is a dragon humming in a withered tree?' Caoshan said, 'The bloodline is unbroken.' 'What are eyes in a skull?' Caoshan said, 'Not completely dried up.' Whereupon there was a verse: 'A dragon humming in a withered tree truly sees the Way; / When the skull is without consciousness, the eyes are first clear. / When joy and consciousness are exhausted, all news is exhausted; / How could that person distinguish the pure within the turbid?' The old man Yuanwu said, 'One person penetrated the leakage of words; one person penetrated the leakage of feelings; one person penetrated the leakage of views.'"
The Master said, "Can you people pick them out? If you cannot pick them out, I will not spare my eyebrows to explain it completely for you: Xiangyan penetrated the leakage of words, yet was bound to death by words and phrases; Shishuang penetrated the leakage of feelings, yet was driven to death by feelings and consciousness; Caoshan penetrated the leakage of views, yet was deluded to death by seeing, hearing, awareness, and knowing. It has been clearly stated; let those with eyes distinguish it!"