大慧普覺禪師語錄 9.10

9.10

施主看藏經請秉拂：「佛真法身，猶若虛空，應物現形，如水中月。」拈起拄杖云：「釋迦老子來也，在杲上座拄杖頭上，現妙色身，普告大眾云：『毘盧藏中有大經卷，量等三千大千世界，書寫三千大千世界中事，悉盡無餘。我以清淨天眼，觀彼大經卷在一微塵內，今夜對人天眾前，設大方便，破彼一塵，出此經卷，饒益有情去也。』」卓一下召大眾云：「一塵已破，大經卷已出，有頓有漸、有權有實、有半有滿、有中有邊、有理有事、有果有因，百千法門無量妙義，世出世間一切諸法，盡在裏許。諸人還信得及麼？若信得及，出三界越苦海，盡未來際悉得受用；若信不及，釋迦老子却入拄杖裏去也。」乃舉起云：「若喚作釋迦老子，又是拄杖；若喚作拄杖，又是釋迦老子。釋迦老子穿過拄杖，拄杖穿過釋迦老子，正當恁麼時，是頓耶是漸耶？是權耶是實耶？是半耶是滿耶？是中耶是邊耶？是理耶是事耶？是因耶是果耶？是釋迦老子耶是拄杖耶？」喝一喝云：「頓也不可得，漸也不可得，權也不可得，實也不可得，半也不可得，滿也不可得，中也不可得，邊也不可得，理也不可得，事也不可得，因也不可得，果也不可得，釋迦老子也不可得，拄杖也不可得，一塵亦不可得，大經卷亦不可得，現今說法者亦不可得，聽法者亦不可得，只這不可得，亦不可得。」遂以拄杖畫一畫云：「畫斷葛藤。」復舉起云：「正當恁麼時，作麼生是各各當人鼻孔？」良久云：「千聖不知何處去，倚天長劍逼人寒。」復卓一下，復舉：「昔有一婆子，施財請趙州和尚轉大藏經，趙州下禪床遶一匝云：『轉藏已畢。』人回舉似婆子，婆云：『比來請轉一藏，如何和尚只轉半藏？』」師云：「眾中商量道：『如何是那半藏？』或云：『再遶一匝。或彈指一下，或咳嗽一聲，或喝一喝，或拍一拍。』恁麼見解，只是不識羞。若是那半藏，莫道趙州更遶一匝，直饒百千萬億匝，於婆子分上只得半藏；設使更遶須彌山百千萬億匝，於婆子分上亦只得半藏；假饒天下老和尚亦如是遶百千萬億匝，於婆子分上也只得半藏；設使山河大地森羅萬象，若草若木，各具廣長舌相，異口同音，從今日轉到盡未來際，於婆子分上亦只得半藏。諸人要識婆子麼？」良久云：「鴛鴦綉出從君看，不把金針度與人。」

A donor requested the Master to take up the fly-whisk for the reading of the Canon: "The Buddha's true Dharma-body is just like empty space; responding to things, it manifests its form, like the moon in the water." Raising his staff, he said: "Old Śākya has arrived! Right atop Senior Monk Gao's staff, he manifests the wondrous form-body and broadly proclaims to the great assembly: 'Within the treasury of Vairocana there is a great scroll of scripture, equal in measure to the trichiliocosm, recording the matters of the trichiliocosm entirely without remainder. With my pure divine eye, I observe that this great scroll of scripture is inside a single dust particle. Tonight, before the assembly of gods and humans, I shall establish a great expedient, break open that single dust particle, bring forth this scroll of scripture, and bring benefit to sentient beings!'" Striking [the floor] once, he called out to the great assembly: "The single dust particle has been broken open, and the great scroll of scripture has come forth: there is sudden and gradual, provisional and real, half and full, center and border, principle and phenomena, fruit and cause; hundreds of thousands of dharma gates and immeasurable wondrous meanings, all worldly and world-transcending dharmas are entirely within it. Can you people still have complete faith in this? If you can have complete faith, you will transcend the three realms, cross the sea of suffering, and attain its use unto the end of future time. If you cannot have complete faith, Old Śākya will retreat back into the staff!" Raising it, he then said: "If you call it Old Śākya, it is again a staff; if you call it a staff, it is again Old Śākya. Old Śākya pierces through the staff; the staff pierces through Old Śākya. Right at this very moment, is it sudden or gradual? Is it provisional or real? Is it half or full? Is it the center or the border? Is it principle or phenomena? Is it cause or fruit? Is it Old Śākya or is it a staff?" He gave a shout and said: "Sudden cannot be attained, gradual cannot be attained, provisional cannot be attained, real cannot be attained, half cannot be attained, full cannot be attained, center cannot be attained, border cannot be attained, principle cannot be attained, phenomena cannot be attained, cause cannot be attained, fruit cannot be attained, Old Śākya cannot be attained, the staff cannot be attained, the single dust particle cannot be attained, the great scroll of scripture cannot be attained, the present expounder of the Dharma cannot be attained, the listeners to the Dharma cannot be attained, and this very 'cannot be attained' cannot be attained either." He then drew a line with his staff and said: "Drawing a line that cuts through the entangled vines." Raising it again, he said: "Right at this very moment, what is the nostril of each and every person?" After a long pause he said: "Where the thousand sages have gone no one knows; / the long sword leaning against heaven chills men with its menace." He struck [the floor] once more, and then brought up the case: "Long ago, an old woman offered money and requested Master Zhaozhou to turn the Great Canon. Zhaozhou stepped down from the meditation couch, circled it once, and said: 'The turning of the Canon is finished.' A person returned and reported this to the old woman. The woman said: 'I originally asked for the turning of a whole canon; why did the Master turn only half a canon?'" The Master said: "Those in the assembly deliberate, saying: 'What is that other half of the canon?' Some say: 'Circling it once more; or snapping the fingers once, or giving a cough, or giving a shout, or clapping the hands once.' Such views are simply shameless. If it is that other half of the canon, not only if Zhaozhou had circled it once more—even if he had circled it hundreds of thousands of myriads of koṭis of times, from the old woman's standpoint it would still be only half a canon. Even if he were to circle Mount Sumeru hundreds of thousands of myriads of koṭis of times, from the old woman's standpoint it would also be only half a canon. Even if all the old masters under heaven were also to circle it hundreds of thousands of myriads of koṭis of times like this, from the old woman's standpoint it would still be only half a canon. Even if the mountains, rivers, the great earth, and all myriad phenomena, grasses and trees, each possessed the mark of a broad and long tongue and with different mouths spoke the same sound, turning it from today until the end of future time, from the old woman's standpoint it would also be only half a canon. Do you people wish to know the old woman?" After a long pause he said: "Letting you gaze at the embroidered mandarin ducks, / she does not pass the golden needle to anyone."