宏智禪師廣錄 1.94

1.94

上堂僧問。如何是向去底人。師云。白雲投壑盡。青嶂倚空高。進云。如何是却來底人。師云。滿頭白髮離巖谷。半底穿雲入市𮠔。進云。如何是不來不去底人。師云。石女喚回三界夢。木人坐斷六門機。師乃云。句裡明宗則易。宗中辨的則難。良久云。還會麼。凍雞未報家林曉。隱隱行人過雪山。

Ascending the hall, a monk asked: "What is a person who goes toward [the beyond]?" The Master said: "White clouds throw themselves into the gorge and are exhausted; / Green peaks lean high against the sky." [The monk] further asked: "What is a person who comes back?" The Master said: "With a head full of white hair, leaving the rocky valleys; / Wearing a half-bamboo hat through the clouds, entering the bustling market." [The monk] further asked: "What is a person who neither comes nor goes?" The Master said: "The stone woman calls back the dream of the three realms; / The wooden figure sits severing the mechanism of the six gates." The Master then said: "Clarifying the ancestral principle within phrases is easy; discerning the aim within the ancestral principle is difficult." After a long pause, he said: "Do you understand? Before the frozen cock announces the dawn of the home woods, / Dimly, a traveler crosses the snowy mountains."