虛堂和尚語錄 10.47

10.47

劫火曾烹鐵面皮，從來不放價頭低，有時雲外露消息，巇嶮門風到者迷。某人一生擔板，咬薑呷醋，佛眼難窺，兩處住山，時止時行，聖凡莫辯，靖退全收晚節，信緣來應古擣，拍板未拈，大星先殞，今則舍利流溢，剖玉斯函，雖然未覩音容，爭柰面目猶在。還見麼？提起骨云：窣堵波中收不得，無陰陽地起雲雷。

The kalpa fire once smelted his iron-skinned face;
never did he let his price be low.
At times he revealed the message beyond the clouds;
his rugged style bewildered all who arrived.
This man all his life shouldered his plank, chewed ginger and sipped vinegar—
even the Buddha's eye could hardly spy him out.
Dwelling as abbot on two mountains, at times halting and at times advancing,
neither sacred nor profane could distinguish him.
In modest retirement he entirely preserved his final years;
following conditions, he responded to the ancient mortar.
Before the clappers were taken up, the great star fell first.
Now the relics overflow, and the jade is opened to this casket.
Although we no longer see his voice and countenance, what can be done about his original face that still remains?
Do you see it?”
He held up the bone and said, “It cannot be contained within the stūpa;
in the land without yin or yang, clouds and thunder arise.”