宏智禪師廣錄 5.29

5.29

At an informal gathering, a monk asked: "I recall: A monk asked Jiashan, 'What is the Way?' Shan said, 'The sun fills the eyes; for ten thousand leagues, not a wisp of cloud hangs.' What is the meaning of this?"
The Master said, "Bright and gleaming, without personal bias; directly taking it on, it does not engage with conditions."
The monk said, "Purely naked and fully exposed, it goes."
The Master said, "Have you ever been like this?"
The monk said, "With no mind, one realizes the mindless Way; having realized the mindless Way, one rests."
The Master said, "Such a person has truly attained sovereignty."
The monk said, "If suddenly someone asks the Venerable, 'What is the Way?', what would you say?"
The Master said, "At the crossroads, cease shading your eyes."
The monk said, "Giving a little and meeting with much."
The Master said, "Have you ever set foot on it?"
The monk said, "Meeting together, nothing is brought forth; as soon as a thought arises, one knows it is there."
The Master said, "In Chang'an, night after night, the moon shines on every house; / In how many places is there music, and in how many places grief?"
A monk asked: "I recall: While Guishan was picking tea, he asked Yangshan, 'All day long I hear only your voice, but do not see your form.' Yangshan shook the tea tree. What was the intention?"
The Master said, "Face to face, it is exposed magnificently; the whole body is vibrantly alive."
The monk said, "Yangshan then asked Guishan, and Guishan remained silent for a good while. What was the intention?"
The Master said, "Severing the roads at both ends, not a hair's breadth separates the middle."
The monk said, "Within this, was there any gain or loss?"
The Master said, "One attained substance; one attained function."
The monk said, "What about Tiantong's speaking morning and evening—is it to clarify substance or to clarify function?"
The Master said, "My tongue does not leave my mouth; do not recklessly poke with needle and awl."
The Master then said: "When patch-robed monks act with subtlety, their ground is naturally secure and hidden, and their application is effortlessly untrammeled. Some are like swift falcons striking doves: hitting or missing, they just fly on. Some are like dull cats waiting for mice: waiting or not waiting, they just stay on watch. Even if you hit the mark or wait it out, whether substance or function, naturally there will be an awakening. Therefore, Guishan asked Yangshan, 'All day long I hear only your voice, but do not see your form.' Yangshan shook the tea tree. Guishan said, 'You have only attained its function.' Yangshan said, 'What about you, Venerable?' Guishan remained silent for a good while. Yangshan said, 'Venerable, you have only attained its substance.' Brothers, one who attains substance cannot be shaken by birth and death. One who attains function cannot be held back or obstructed in horizontal or vertical freedom. If, outside, you are not obstructed by things, and inside, you are not bound by quietude, then circulating back and forth, it naturally forms a single family. Only then do you know that Guishan attained substance and Yangshan attained function. Their family, father and son, has places where they accommodate each other, and also times where they snatch from each other. If you penetrate through, only then will you know that Guishan and Yangshan, father and son, cast nothing away in vain. When in substance, function is attained within substance; when in function, substance is attained within function. Therefore it is said: 'Borrowing function to illuminate position, function resides in substance; borrowing position to illuminate function, substance resides in function.' Tell me, when nothing at all is borrowed, how is it? Bias and upright have never left their original positions; how does the unborn engage with the causal conditions of words?"