如淨和尚語錄 2.48

2.48

冬夜小參。長至迎新。如何話會。記得黃面比丘道。如破鏡鳥以毒樹果抱為其子。子成父母皆遭其食。好箇消息。今夜天童。乞食見小利。未免𢬵身捨命。將現前大眾。作枚毒樹果。念一道真言。抱捕去也。類我類我。出來出來。舉拂子云。看。出來了也。有能食其父母者麼。可謂知恩報恩。方堪傳授。其或未然。第二頭相見。異種靈苗火裡栽。鐵花無影樹頭開。驀然結箇團圝果。舉似時人收得來。於是轉作龍眼茘枝甘蔗蒲桃。元屬自己家園。普請自家咬嚼。吞也得吐也得。剔團圝也得。百雜碎也得。有也得無也得。恁麼也得。不恁麼也得。恁麼不恁麼總得。總不得也得。咄。狼藉滿地。笑殺傍觀。且道。如何收拾得。誰在畫樓沽酒處。相邀來喫趙州茶。

Minor convocation on the winter solstice night:
“The winter solstice welcomes the new; how to speak of it? I remember the yellow-faced bhikṣu saying, ‘Like the Pojing bird, which embraces the fruit of a poisonous tree as its child; when the child is grown, the parents are both devoured by it.’ Fine news! Tonight Tiantong begs for food and sees small gain; inevitably risking his body and giving up his life, he takes the present assembly as fruits of the poisonous tree. Chanting a spell, he embraces and captures them: ‘Resemble me! Resemble me! Come out, come out!’”
Raising the whisk, he said: “Look! They have come out! Is there anyone who can devour their parents? Such a one can be said to know kindness and repay kindness, only then worthy of being transmitted the teaching. If not yet so, we shall meet at the second level:
An extraordinary seed of wondrous sprout is planted in the fire;
Iron flowers without shadow bloom on the treetop.
Suddenly bearing a whole, round fruit,
I present it to the people of the times, who can gather it in.
Thereupon it turns into longans, lychees, sugarcanes, and grapes, originally belonging to one’s own garden. I invite you all to chew on it yourselves. Swallowing is fine, spitting out is fine; making it whole and round is fine, breaking it into a hundred pieces is fine; existence is fine, non-existence is fine; being like this is fine, not being like this is fine; both being like this and not being like this are altogether fine; none of it being fine is also fine! Bah! Scattered all over the ground, laughing onlookers to death! And tell me, how to gather it up?
Who is at the painted tower where wine is bought,
Inviting each other to come drink Zhaozhou’s tea?”