大慧普覺禪師語錄 8.46

8.46

蔡春卿薦考請示眾，舉：「洛浦示眾云：『孫臏收鋪去也，有卜者出來。』時有僧出曰：『請和尚一卜。』浦云：『汝家爺死。』僧無語。法眼代拊掌三下。」師云：「這僧沒興死却爺，又被他人拊掌，信知禍不單行，福無雙至。然洛浦善卜，法眼善斷，若子細思量，爻象吉凶，二老一時漏逗。既占得火風鼎卦，何故斷作地火明夷？雲門即不然。」驀拈拄杖云：「孫臏門下死却郎罷。」連卓三下云：「會麼？內屬艮宮，再求外象。」又卓三下云：「千靈萬聖，萬聖千靈，莫順人情。」復卓一下云：「吉凶上卦。」

Requested by Cai Chunqing to instruct the assembly on the occasion of making offerings for his late father, he brought up [the following]: "Luopu instructed the assembly, saying, 'Sun Bin has closed his shop; let a diviner come forward.' Thereupon a monk stepped forward and said, 'Please cast a divination for me, Master.' Luopu said, 'Your father has died.' The monk was speechless. Fayan clapped his hands three times in his place." The Master said, "This monk had the misfortune of his father dying, and on top of that had someone else clapping hands at him. One truly knows that misfortunes never come alone, and blessings never arrive in pairs. Nevertheless, Luopu was good at divining, and Fayan was good at interpreting; yet if one considers it carefully, regarding the auspices of the lines and images, both old fellows blundered together. Since he had drawn the Fire-Wind Cauldron hexagram (Ding), why did he interpret it as Earth-Fire Brightness Hidden (Mingyi)? Yunmen is not so." Suddenly taking up his staff, he said, "Under Sun Bin's door, the old man has died." Striking three times consecutively, he said, "Do you understand? Internally it belongs to the Gen palace; seek again the external image." Again striking three times, he said, "Thousand spirits and myriad sages, myriad sages and thousand spirits—do not follow human sentiments." Striking once more, he said, "Auspicious and inauspicious are displayed on the hexagram."