大慧普覺禪師語錄 9.2

9.2

秉拂，僧問：「萬鍛爐中鐵蒺蔾，當塗佛祖不容伊，而今信手拈來用，未審如何話此機？」師云：「沒這閑家具。」進云：「只如廣敷此座，是閑不閑？」師云：「髑髏粉碎不知痛。」進云：「可謂鐵鞭指出胡人路，抝曲由來為後人。」師云：「鐵蒺䔧在甚麼處？」進云：「拶。」師云：「笑殺衲僧。」乃云：「夷門昔日呈家醜，拈出無邊栗棘蓬，今日甌峯孤頂上，幸然無事又相逢。相逢即且置，其中事作麼生？若有人道得一句，便請各自歸堂；若道不得，打葛藤謾諸人去也。諸佛未出世時有，即今巴鼻一，人人，頂門上輝大寶光，出世後消息全無，一箇箇脚跟下縱橫十字，有佛處不得住，無佛處急走過，拶著不來，三千里外穿却鼻孔。到這裏，直饒置無邊剎境於一毛頭上，只這一毛頭，從甚麼處得來？納百億須彌盧於一粒粟中，只這一粒粟，又向甚麼處安著？如是則易，不如是則難，休於言上覓，莫向意中求。如是則難，不如是則易，識取鉤頭意，莫認定盤星。衲僧拄杖子，拈得便行，切忌向平地上釘樁搖艣，所以道：『神光不昧，萬古徽猷，入此門來，莫存知解。』只如一大藏教說權說實，說頓說漸，說有說無，乃至西天此土諸代祖師，古往今來一切知識，種種言語，種種作用，且道：是知解耶？非知解耶？若定奪得出，秉拂上座一場敗闕，若定奪不出，潑第二杓惡水去也。」喝一喝云：「是甚麼？有照用，無向背，只許老胡知，不許老胡會。睦州一向擔板，趙州貴買賤賣，獨有三聖瞎驢，至今遭人笑怪。須彌山突出諸人額角邊，大海水灌入諸人鼻孔裏，即且置。馬大師道：『自從胡亂後，三十年不曾少鹽醬。』又作麼生商量？還委悉麼？多年曆日無人問，驀地拈來愁殺人。」喝一喝，復舉：「巖頭參德山，纔跨門便問：『是凡是聖？』山便喝，頭便禮拜。後有僧舉似洞山，山云：『若不是奯公，也大難承當。』巖頭聞云：『洞山老漢不識好惡，錯下名言，我當時一手擡，一手搦。』」師云：「猛虎不識阱，阱中身死；蛟龍不怖劍，劍下身亡。巖頭雖於虎阱中有透脫一路，向劍刃上有出身之機，若子細檢點將來，猶欠悟在。只今還有為巖頭作主底麼？出來與杲上座相見。」良久喝一喝，拍一拍云：「洎合停囚長智。」

Holding the whisk, a monk asked: "An iron caltrop in a furnace of myriad smeltings—when blocking the path, even buddhas and patriarchs cannot brook it. Now, taking it up freely with the hand for use, how, may I ask, do you speak of this dynamic?" The Master said, "There is no such idle furniture here." The monk proceeded: "Just as you extensively spread this seat, is that idle or not idle?" The Master said, "When the skull is crushed to powder, one feels no pain." The monk proceeded: "One might say an iron whip points out the barbarian's path, / bending the bow originally for the sake of later generations." The Master said, "Where is the iron caltrop?" The monk pressed forward: "Za!" The Master said, "Laughing the patch-robed monks to death!" Then he said: "In Yimen of old, family ugliness was displayed, / bringing forth boundless thorny water-chestnut burrs; / today, atop the solitary peak of Ou, / fortunately without incident, we meet again. Setting aside meeting again, how is the matter within? If anyone can speak a phrase, please each return to the hall; if you cannot speak, I will spin out entanglement-vines to deceive you all. Before the buddhas appeared in the world, there was this grasp on things; each and every person radiated a great precious light from atop the crown. After they appeared in the world, news was utterly absent; beneath each person's heels it went crisscross in all directions. Where there is a buddha, you must not stay; where there is no buddha, run past swiftly. If pressed and you cannot respond, your nostrils will be pierced through three thousand miles away. Coming to this point, even if you place boundless lands on the tip of a single hair—just this tip of a hair, from where did it come? If you contain a hundred billion Mount Sumerus in a single grain of millet—just this single grain of millet, where will you place it? If it is like this, then it is easy; if it is not like this, then it is difficult—cease searching in words, do not seek within conceptions! If it is like this, then it is difficult; if it is not like this, then it is easy—recognize the intention at the hook's tip, do not fixate on the star of the steelyard scale! A patch-robed monk's staff: take it up and go immediately; by no means drive a stake and row the oar on level ground! Therefore it is said: 'The divine light is never dimmed; an illustrious model for ten thousand ages. Having entered this gate, harbor no conceptual understanding.' Take the teachings of the entire Great Canon: speaking of provisional and real, speaking of sudden and gradual, speaking of existence and non-existence, and even the generations of patriarchs in India and this land, all good spiritual friends past and present, with their diverse words and diverse functions—tell me: is that conceptual understanding, or is it not conceptual understanding? If you can settle it, the senior monk holding the whisk suffers a total defeat; if you cannot settle it, I will splash a second ladle of foul water." He gave a shout and said, "What is it? Having illumination and function, without facing or opposing; only the Old Barbarian is permitted to know, the Old Barbarian is not permitted to understand. Muzhou was completely one-sided carrying a board; Zhaozhou bought high and sold cheap; only Sansheng's blind donkey has until today been laughed at and blamed by people. Mount Sumeru jutting out from beside your temples, ocean water pouring into your nostrils—setting that aside for now, Great Master Ma said, 'Ever since the rebellion, for thirty years I have never lacked salt and sauce.' How do you discuss this? Do you fully understand? The calendar of many years has had no one asking about it; / suddenly taken up, it grieves one to death." He gave a shout, and again cited: "Yantou visited Deshan; just as he stepped across the threshold, he asked, 'Common or sacred?' Shan gave a shout, and Tou bowed. Later a monk related this to Dongshan. Dongshan said, 'If it were not Master Huo, it would have been very hard to bear.' When Yantou heard this, he said, 'The old fellow Dongshan does not recognize good from bad and misapplies terms. At that time, with one hand I lifted up, and with one hand I pressed down.'" The Master said, "A fierce tiger does not recognize the trap, and dies in the trap; a flood dragon does not fear the sword, and perishes beneath the sword. Although Yantou had a way of breakthrough within the tiger's trap and a dynamic of escape on the sword's edge, if examined carefully, he still lacked awakening. Right now, is there anyone who can take charge for Yantou? Come forward and meet with Senior Monk Gao!" After a long pause, he gave a shout, clapped his hands once, and said, "Almost keeping a prisoner to foster wit."