密菴和尚語錄 1.168

1.168

上堂：「平白地拈起一絲毫頭，盡大地人亡鋒結舌，百尺竿頭進得一步，妙喜世界百雜碎。達磨大師九年面壁，知他是真耶？是偽耶？靈隱咬定牙關，力盡神疲也檢點他不出。何故？彼彼丈夫三十年前五十年後拳趯相應，忽然悟去，未免撞入漆桶隊裏。到箇裏如何？鐵卵生兒。」復舉：「僧問法眼：『如何是曹源一滴水？』法眼對道：『是曹源一滴水。』」師云：「法眼和尚向百戰場中舞纛旗，未免傍觀者哂。忽有問靈隱：『如何是曹源一滴水？』只對他道：『和屎合尿。』」

Ascending the hall, [the Master] said, "Out of nowhere, picking up a single hair-tip, the people of the whole earth lose their sharp edges and have their tongues tied. Advancing a step at the top of a hundred-foot pole, the world of Abhirati is smashed into a hundred shards. Great Master Bodhidharma faced the wall for nine years; who knows whether he was genuine or counterfeit? Lingyin clenches his teeth, and though his strength is spent and his spirit exhausted, he still cannot detect anything in him. Why? Those great fellows thirty years before and fifty years after matched fist and kick; if they suddenly had an awakening, they still could not avoid bumping into the troupe of pitch-black lacquer buckets. What about when reaching this place? An iron egg gives birth to a child."
He further cited: "A monk asked Fayan, 'What is a drop of water from the source of Cao[xi]?' Fayan replied, 'It is a drop of water from the source of Cao[xi].'"
The Master said, "Venerable Fayan danced with the standard-flag in the midst of a hundred battlefields, but he could not avoid the snickers of bystanders. If someone suddenly asked Lingyin, 'What is a drop of water from the source of Cao[xi]?' I would only say to him: 'Mixed with shit and blended with piss.'"