密菴和尚語錄 1.151

1.151

入寺，上堂，僧問：「喝石巖畔，中興後五百歲叢林；靈鷲峯前，重新二千年前公案。拈花微笑即不問，正令全提事若何？」師云：「普天匝地。」進云：「斬新日月，特地乾坤。」師云：「又得上座重證明。」進云：「憑師一滴曹溪水，散作皇都內苑春。」師云：「爾脚跟下事作麼生？」進云：「適來親從僧堂裏來。」師云：「畢竟是箇什麼？」進云：「劄。」師云：「杜撰禪和。」師乃云：「孤峯頂上，目視雲霄未為究竟；十字街頭，和泥合水轉見周遮。二途不涉，別有生機一路。如龍得水，似虎靠山，把斷要津，不通凡聖，猶落時人升降處。而今坐立儼然，見聞不昧，箇箇負冲天氣概，人人懷赤之珠。到箇裏如何通信？如何受用？所以道：『是法住法位，世間相常住。』如是則山河大地不礙眼光，四聖六凡互為主伴。坐見聲和響順，萬法無差。舉一明三，目機銖兩，橫該竪括，縱奪臨時。且到家一句作麼生道？蒲團時倚無餘事，永日寥寥賀太平。」

Entering the monastery, he ascended the hall. A monk asked: "Beside the Heshi Cliff, the monastery has been revived after five hundred years; before Vulture Peak, the gong'an of two thousand years ago is renewed. Not asking about holding up the flower and subtly smiling, what about when the correct command is fully raised?"
The Master said: "Pervading all heaven and covering the earth."
The monk continued: "A brand-new sun and moon, extraordinary heaven and earth."
The monk said: "Again, I have the elder's repeated testimony."
The monk continued: "Relying on the Master's single drop of Caoxi water, scattering it to become the spring of the imperial court."
The Master said: "What about the matter beneath your heels?"
The monk continued: "Just now I came directly from the monks' hall."
The Master said: "In the end, what is it?"
The monk continued: "Zha!"
The Master said: "A fabricated Chan monk."
The Master then said: "On the peak of the solitary summit, gazing at the clouds and skies is not yet the ultimate; at the crossroads, mixing with mud and wallowing in water appears even more entangled. Not treading either of the two paths, there is another single road of living vitality. Like a dragon getting to water, like a tiger relying on a mountain, holding shut the essential crossing, letting neither ordinary nor sage pass—this still falls into the contemporary people's realm of rising and falling. Now you sit and stand dignified, seeing and hearing unconfused; each person possesses a spirit that surges to the heavens, and everyone holds a flawless pearl. Arriving here, how do you send communication? How do you apply it? Therefore it is said: 'These dharmas abide in their dharma-positions; worldly marks are permanently abiding.' When like this, mountains, rivers, and the great earth do not obstruct the eyesight; the four sages and six ordinary beings serve mutually as host and companion. Sitting, one sees sounds harmonizing and echoes according, ten thousand dharmas without deviation. Raising one to understand three, discerning subtleties at a glance, horizontally covering and vertically encompassing, releasing and seizing according to the occasion. And tell me, how do you express the phrase of arriving home? Leaning at times on the meditation cushion, there is no other business; the eternal day is quiet and tranquil, congratulating the era of peace."