宏智禪師廣錄 3.95

3.95

[The Master] cited: When Xuefeng was serving as the cook for Dongshan, one day while washing rice, Dongshan asked, "Do you wash away the sand and leave the rice, or do you wash away the rice and leave the sand?" Xuefeng said, "Sand and rice are washed away together." Dongshan said, "What will the great assembly eat?" Xuefeng then overturned the basin. Dongshan said, "In the future, you will go and see someone else." The Master said, "Xuefeng merely climbed higher step by step, unaware that the heels of his straw sandals were broken. If bias and uprightness curve and adapt, and striking and singing proceed together, speech and energy naturally accord, and father and son harmonize. Tell me, where does Dongshan's disapproval of Xuefeng lie? In a cloudless sky of ten thousand miles, there is still a fault; when the blue pool is like a mirror, the moon is hard to reflect."