大慧普覺禪師語錄 8.40

8.40

On the Dragon Boat Festival, he instructed the assembly, holding up his staff and citing: "Great Master Yunmen said, 'Why have the sages of the past not reached here?' The Hermit of Lotus Peak said, 'When the ancients reached here, why were they unwilling to stay?'" The Master said, "These two venerable elders were taking down the eastern fence to patch the western wall, embracing the bridge pillar to wash, holding the cable to let loose the boat—not that they lacked that, but ultimately they had no principle for helping people. Yunmen is not so: if you have not reached here, he makes you reach it; if you have already reached here, he shatters your head and cracks your brains. Tell me, is there any way he helps people?" After a long pause, he said, "'One, two, three, four, five—patching where empty space is deficient; five, four, three, two, one—writing "Great Auspiciousness" right on the door.' A skilled hand swings the axe to shear off mud from the nose—how could one fathom the wondrous function of a patch-robed monk? If you suddenly recognize it, the news is exposed right at the tips of the hundred grasses. And what is the exposed news? Oṃ bhrūṃ oṃ chrīṃ, swiftly in accordance with the statutes and ordinances!" He struck [the seat] once.