大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.64

1.64

The Master said, "Zhang Wujin, having met Doushuai Yue, mocked Huitang instead, composing a verse: 'Long aspiring toward the dragon in Mount Huanglong, / Arriving here, I saw only an old monk dwelling in the mountain. / One must know that beyond the fist that turns back and touches, / There is another single spot of magical rhinoceros communicating through.' At that time, throughout all quarters people admired and accepted it. When I later came to see this, I regretted that Wujin had already died. He said, 'One must know that beyond the fist that turns back and touches, there is another single spot of magical rhinoceros communicating through.' If one relies on this verse to see Huitang, is it not far off? Master Lingyuan once wrote a eulogy saying: 'Three questions countered and crushed, surpassing the subtle mechanism on Vulture Peak; / A single fist held down to show, exposing the naked body on Dragon Peak. / When hearing of it, wealthy and noble; after seeing it, poor; / In old age singing loudly, joyful at returning, / Leaving it to others to call him an old monk dwelling in the mountain.' When Huang Luzhi heard it, he laughed and said, 'What Wujin called a single spot of magical rhinoceros is a slovenly attempt to bore ear holes in empty space.' Lingyuan's composing a eulogy to clear his name was writing a character without placing a stroke. Wuzu said, 'When practitioners of the Three Vehicles escape the prison of the three realms, those of the small fruit must rely on expedients, like burrowing through the ground, piercing walls, or escaping from a skylight. Only a bodhisattva who has attained the Way, from the moment he enters hell, first acts without arousing the jailer's suspicion, everything being as normal. One day he sends a message to procure wine and meat for the jailer to eat; when the jailer is dead drunk, he takes the jailer's clothes, gaiters, and turban, dresses himself in them, puts his own tattered clothes on the jailer, transfers the cangue to the jailer's neck, and has him sit in the cell; then, holding the jailer's rattan rod in his own hand, he walks openly out through the main gate.' A person who investigates Chan must be like this before he will do."