宏智禪師廣錄 4.205

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上堂舉陸亘大夫問南泉。和尚姓甚麼。泉云姓王。大夫云。王還有眷屬也無。泉云。四臣不昧。夫云。王居何位。泉云。玉殿苔生。僧舉問曹山。玉殿苔生意旨如何。山云。不居正位。僧云。忽遇八方來朝時如何。山云。它不受禮。僧云。何用來朝。山云。違即斬。僧云。違是臣分上事。未審君意如何。山云。樞密不得旨。僧云。恁麼則燮理之功。全歸臣相也。山云。汝還知君意麼。僧云。外方敢不論量。師云。深深處細細行。隱隱時密密覷。若能恁麼。徹根徹源。旁參回互。宛轉虛玄。不觸尊貴。機橫梭度。針露線穿。所以道。句裏明宗即易。宗中辨的則難。正恁麼時且道。有辨白無辨白。若道有辨白。又却不密密。若道無辨白。又却不惺惺。正恁麼時作麼生體悉。還會麼。三藏老人顏似玉。萬年童子鬢如絲。

Ascending the hall, he cited: Grand Master Lu Gen asked Nanquan, "What is the Venerable's surname?" Nanquan said, "My surname is Wang (King)." The Grand Master said, "Does the King have kin?" Nanquan said, "The four ministers are not obscure." The Grand Master said, "In what position does the King reside?" Nanquan said, "Moss grows in the jade palace." A monk raised this and asked Caoshan, "What is the meaning of 'Moss grows in the jade palace'?" Caoshan said, "He does not reside in the upright position." The monk said, "What happens when the eight directions suddenly come to court?" Caoshan said, "He does not receive their salutations." The monk said, "What use is there in their coming to court?" Caoshan said, "If they disobey, they are beheaded." The monk said, "Disobedience is the affair of the ministers; I do not yet know the ruler's intent." Caoshan said, "The Privy Council does not receive the decree." The monk said, "If so, then the merit of harmonising governance falls entirely to the ministers and councillors." Caoshan said, "Do you still know the ruler's intent?" The monk said, "How could an outsider dare to deliberate on it?" The Master said: Walk delicately in the deepest places; peer intimately into hidden moments. If you can be like this, penetrating thoroughly to the root and source, engaging across and mutually interpenetrating, winding and curving through the empty and dark, you will not infringe upon the honoured and noble; the mechanism is crosswise as the shuttle passes, the needle exposed as the thread pierces through. Therefore it is said: To clarify the source within a phrase is easy; to discern the target within the source is difficult. Right at such a time, tell me: is there discernment or is there no discernment? If you say there is discernment, then it is not intimate; if you say there is no discernment, then it is not awakened. Right at such a time, how do you comprehend it? Do you understand? The Tripiṭaka elder's countenance is like jade; the myriad-year youth's temples are like silk.