宏智禪師廣錄 1.135

1.135

上堂舉洞山云。初秋夏末。或東或西。直須向萬里無寸草處去。良久云。祇如萬里無寸草處。又作麼生去。後僧舉問石霜。霜云。出門便是草。明安云。直是不出門。亦是草漫漫地。師云。出門是草。涉芊芊莽莽之閒。葉落知秋。墮黯黯青青之處。到者裏。須體取機雖轉紐。印未成文處始得。還端的麼。良久云。水明老蚌懷胎後。雲重蒼龍退骨時。

Ascending the hall, [the Master] cited: "Dongshan said, 'At the beginning of autumn and the end of summer, whether going east or west, you must go straight to the place where for ten thousand miles there is not an inch of grass.' After a long pause he said, 'Just as for the place where for ten thousand miles there is not an inch of grass, how do you go?' Later a monk cited this and asked Shishuang. Shishuang said, 'Stepping out the gate, there is grass immediately.' Ming'an said, 'Even if one does not step out the gate, it is still overgrown with grass everywhere.'" The Master said: "Stepping out the gate is grass—wading through lush, tangled thickets. Seeing a falling leaf, one knows autumn—dropping into a dark and verdant place. Reaching here, you must grasp that although the mechanism turns its pivot, the seal has not yet made an impression; only then will you attain it. Is it genuinely so?" After a long pause, he said: "Water glistens after the old clam conceives the pearl; clouds gather thick when the azure dragon sheds its bones."