如淨和尚語錄 2.41

2.41

瑞岩解夏小參。十方聚會魚游網。三月安居鳥入籠。生殺盡時蠶作繭。心空及第黑山中。大眾直饒。句外透關。機先驗臘。鞔峯棒頭有刺。喝下爆雷。酌然未肯。何故釋迦元不出世。達磨斷不西來。天生豈受差排。誰肯輒從抑屈。況復威音那畔。空劫已前早成掩彩。今日既到者裡。合作麼生。咦。放過一著三千里外。咬猪咬狗。荒草葛藤。還有借路底麼。卓拄杖云。摘楊花摘楊花。舉。僧問洞山。秋初夏末。向什麼處去。洞山云。向萬里無寸草處去。大眾洞山恁麼答話。雖則老婆心切。未免平地陷入。今夜忽有人。問淨上座。只向他道。隨行蹈斷流水聲。縱觀寫出飛禽跡。

Minor convocation at Ruiyan for concluding the summer retreat:
"Gathered from the ten directions, fish swim into a net;
retreating for three months, birds enter a cage.
When life and death are exhausted, the silkworm spins a cocoon;
passing the examination with mind empty within the Black Mountain.
Great assembly! Even if you penetrate the barrier beyond phrases
and test your seniority before the dynamic opportunity,
though Mount Mi's staff has thorns
and beneath the shout thunders crash,
certainly I would not approve.
Why? Śākya originally did not appear in the world;
Bodhidharma decisively never came from the west.
How could what is naturally born accept arrangement?
Who would willingly comply with suppression?
Moreover, on that side of Bhīṣmagarjitasvararāja,
prior to the empty kalpa, it had already turned into concealment.
Having arrived here today, what should be done?
Bah! Letting one move slip by three thousand miles away,
biting pigs and biting dogs, wild grass and entangling vines.
Is there still anyone borrowing a path?"
Striking his staff, he said: "Pluck the willow catkins, pluck the willow catkins!"
He cited: "A monk asked Dongshan, 'At the beginning of autumn and the end of summer, where should one go?'
Dongshan said, 'Go to the place where there is not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles.'
Great assembly! Dongshan answering like this,
although his grandmotherly mind was earnest,
could not avoid sinking into level ground.
Tonight, if someone suddenly asks Jing the Elder,
I will simply say to him:
'Following along, trample to silence the sound of flowing water;
gazing freely, sketch out the tracks of flying birds.'"