宏智禪師廣錄 4.256

4.256

憑侍郎請上堂僧問。一絲不隔時如何。師云。合同船子竝頭行。僧云。其中事作麼生。師云。快刀快斧斫不入。僧云。如何是的的相逢底句子。師云。月色和雲白。天容帶水秋。僧云。只如李相國參藥山。還的也無。師云。莽鹵漢又恁麼去也。僧云喏喏。師云。邯鄲學唐步。師乃云。休去歇去。絕言絕慮。廓無所依。妙無所住。轉歷歷之機。運綿綿之步。神游方外靈臺。道契環中虛處。恁麼就也。藏身白雲雲外家。恁麼回也。著脚青山山下路。宛轉窮通。旁參回互。十成收得返魂香。一等來撾荼毒鼓。肯觸氣於死蛇。要捋鬚於猛虎。却借其功。不謀而遇。枯木龍吟而起雲。南山豹變披霧。律入春筒。影流曉戶。百億儀分三千體露。大經掇出於微塵。古佛相交於露柱。歷代諸祖只箇生涯。一切眾生同時滅度。大用石火遲。全機電光遽。哆哆和和也。問若剪答如裁。轟轟磕磕也。喝如雷棒如雨。洞山佛對三斤麻。趙州衫重七斤布。道火不我燒唇。道水不我濡袴。無是無非。何規何矩。柱杖子裏許將來。鉢袋子那時分付。

Vice Minister Ping requested [an address]. Ascending the hall, a monk asked: "How is it when not a single thread separates?"
The Master said: "Boats of the same company row side by side."
The monk said: "What is the affair within it?"
The Master said: "A sharp knife and a sharp axe cannot hack their way in."
The monk said: "What is the sentence of truly meeting face to face?"
The Master said: "The moon's color blends with the clouds in whiteness; the sky's countenance carries the water into autumn."
The monk said: "What about when Prime Minister Li visited Yaoshan—was it truly so or not?"
The Master said: "The reckless fellow goes like that again!"
The monk said: "Yes, yes."
The Master said: "Learning the Handan walk."
The Master then said: "Cease and desist! Cut off speech and sever deliberation! Vastly without anything to rely on; wondrously without anywhere to abide. Turning the clearly distinct dynamic; moving with continuous steps. The spirit roams the numinous terrace beyond the world; the Way accords with the empty space within the ring. Conforming like this: hiding the body in a home beyond the white clouds; returning like this: setting foot on the path beneath the green mountains. Winding through extremity and penetration, participating indirectly in mutual interpenetration. Fully gathering the soul-returning incense; uniformly striking the poison-smeared drum. Willing to face the vapor of a dead snake; seeking to stroke the whiskers of a fierce tiger. Yet borrowing its function, meeting without contrivance. The withered tree roars like a dragon and clouds arise; the South Mountain leopard transforms and is wrapped in mist. The pitch-pipe enters the spring bamboo cylinder; the shadow flows across the morning door. A hundred billion manners divide, three thousand bodies are exposed. The great scripture is lifted out of a dust mote; the ancient Buddha intersects with the bare pillar. The successive generations of ancestral masters had only this livelihood; all sentient beings simultaneously attain extinction. Great function is slow as flint-spark; the whole mechanism is swift as lightning-flash. Babbling and jabbering—the questions are like cuts, the answers are like trims. Crashing and rumbling—the shouts are like thunder, the blows of the stick are like rain. Dongshan's answer of Buddha was 'three pounds of hemp'; Zhaozhou's robe weighed 'seven pounds of cloth'. Saying 'fire' does not burn my lips; saying 'water' does not wet my trousers. There is neither right nor wrong; what compass and what square? Bring forth that which is inside the staff, and at that time the bowl-bag will be entrusted to you."