佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 1.29

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長慶問雲門。雪峯與麼道。還有出頭不得處麼。門云。有。慶云。作麼生。門云。不可總作野狐精見解。雪峯云。匹上不足。匹下有餘。我更與爾打葛藤。拈拄杖云。還見雪峯麼。咄。王令稍嚴。不許攙奪行市。大溈喆云。我更為諸人。土上加泥。拈拄杖云。看看。雪峯向諸人面前放屙。咄。為什麼屎臭也不知。雪峯示眾云。盡大地撮來如粟米粒大。古人接物利生。有奇特處。只是不妨辛懃。三上投子。九到洞山。置漆桶木杓。到處作飯頭。也只為透脫此事。及至洞山作飯頭。一日洞山問雪峯。作什麼。峯云。淘米。山云。淘沙去米。淘米去沙。峯云。沙米一齊去。山云。大眾喫箇什麼。峯便覆盆。山云。子緣在德山。指令見之。纔到便問。從上宗乘中事。學人還有分也無。德山打一棒云。道什麼。因此有省。後在鰲山阻雪。謂嵓頭云。我當時在德山棒下。如桶底脫相似。嵓頭喝云。爾不見道。從門入者。不是家珍。須是自己胸中流出。蓋天蓋地。方有少分相應。雪峯忽然大悟。禮拜云。師兄今日始是鰲山成道。如今人只管道。古人特地做作。教後人依規矩。若恁麼。正是謗他古人。謂之出佛身血。古人不似如今人苟且。豈以一言半句。以當平生。若扶竪宗教。續佛壽命。所以吐一言半句。自然坐斷天下人舌頭。無爾著意路作情解。涉道理處。看他此箇示眾。蓋為他曾見作家來。所以有作家鉗鎚。凡出一言半句。不是心機意識思量鬼窟裏作活計。直是超群拔萃。坐斷古今。不容擬議。他家用處。盡是如此。一日示眾云。南山有一條鱉鼻蛇。汝等諸人切須好看取。時稜道者出眾云。恁麼則今日堂中大有人喪身失命去在。又云。盡大地是沙門一隻眼。汝等諸人。向什麼處屙。又云。望州亭與汝相見了也。烏石嶺與汝相見了也。僧堂前與汝相見了也。時保福問鵝湖。僧堂前即且置。如何是望州亭。烏石嶺相見處。鵝湖驟步歸方丈。他常舉這般語。示眾。只如道盡大地撮來如粟米粒大。這箇時節。且道以情識卜度得麼。須是打破羅籠。得失是非一時放下。洒洒落落。自然透得他圈繢。方見他用處。且道。雪峯意在什麼處。人多作情解道。心是萬法之主。盡大地一時在我手裏。且喜沒交涉。到這裏。須是箇真實漢。聊聞舉著。徹骨徹髓見得透。且不落情思意想。若是箇本色行脚衲子。見他恁麼。已是郎當為人了也。看他雪竇頌云。

Changqing asked Yunmen, "Xuefeng spoke like this; is there still anywhere he cannot emerge?" Yunmen said, "There is." Changqing said, "How is it?" Yunmen said, "One must not entirely make the understanding of a wild fox spirit." Xuefeng said, "Inferior when compared with what is above, but more than enough when compared with what is below. I shall make further entangling vines for you." Holding up his staff, he said, "Do you still see Xuefeng? Bah! The king's decree is somewhat strict; encroaching upon the marketplace is forbidden." Daguai Zhe said, "I shall add mud over earth for everyone." Holding up his staff, he said, "Look, look! Xuefeng has relieved himself in front of everyone! Bah! Why do you not even know the stench of shit?" Xuefeng addressed the assembly, saying: "The entire great earth, gathered up, is as large as a grain of millet." The ancients received people and benefited living beings with extraordinary means, but this came only from unsparing diligence. Three times he went up to Touzi, nine times he visited Dongshan; carrying his lacquer tub and wooden ladle, serving as rice cook everywhere he went, only to penetrate and cast off this matter. When he was serving as rice cook at Dongshan, one day Dongshan asked Xuefeng, "What are you doing?" Xuefeng said, "Washing rice." Dongshan said, "Do you wash the sand away and keep the rice, or do you wash the rice away and keep the sand?" Xuefeng said, "Sand and rice are cast away all at once." Dongshan said, "What will the great assembly eat?" Xuefeng thereupon overturned the basin. Dongshan said, "Your karmic affinity lies with Deshan; I direct you to go see him." As soon as he arrived, he asked, "In the matter of the ancestral vehicle from above, does this student still have a share or not?" Deshan struck him with his staff, saying, "What are you saying?" Due to this he had an awakening. Later, snowbound on Mount Ao, he said to Yantou, "When I was under Deshan's staff back then, it was just like the bottom falling out of a tub." Yantou shouted and said, "Have you not heard it said: What enters through the gate is not the family treasure. It must flow out from your own chest, covering heaven and covering earth, before you have a minor share of accord!" Xuefeng suddenly attained great enlightenment. He bowed and said, "Senior brother, only today have I accomplished the Way on Mount Ao." People nowadays keep saying that the ancients deliberately made contrivances to teach later people to abide by rules. If so, they are truly slandering those ancients—it is called shedding the Buddha's blood. The ancients were not sloppy like people nowadays; how could they take a single word or half a phrase to stand for their whole life? In upholding the ancestral teaching and continuing the Buddha's lifespan, the single word or half a phrase they utter naturally cuts off the tongues of everyone under heaven. There is no path for your intentional thinking to form emotional interpretations or meddle with principles. Look at this instruction he gave to the assembly: it was precisely because he had once seen an adept that he possessed the tongs and hammer of an adept. Whenever he brought forth a single word or half a phrase, it was not making a living inside the ghost cave of mental scheming, consciousness, and deliberation; it was completely surpassing the crowd and standing out, sitting and cutting off past and present, not brooking any speculation. The functionings of his lineage were all like this. One day he addressed the assembly, saying, "On South Mountain there is a turtle-nosed snake; all of you must look closely at it!" At that time Daozhe Leng stepped forward from the assembly and said, "If so, in the hall today there are many people losing body and life." Again he said, "The entire great earth is a single eye of a śramaṇa; where will all of you relieve yourselves?" Again he said, "At Wangzhou Pavilion I have already met with you; at Wushi Ridge I have already met with you; in front of the monks' hall I have already met with you." At that time Baofu asked Ehu, "Setting aside in front of the monks' hall for a moment, how is the meeting place at Wangzhou Pavilion and Wushi Ridge?" Ehu strode quickly back to the Abbot's quarters. He often brought up words like these to instruct the assembly. Just take his saying, "The entire great earth, gathered up, is as large as a grain of millet"—at such a moment, tell me, can it be reckoned through emotional consciousness? You must smash the cage and trap, let go of gain and loss, right and wrong, all at once, completely unburdened and free, and then you will naturally penetrate his snare and only then see his functioning. And tell me, where was Xuefeng's intention? Most people make emotional interpretations, saying, "Mind is the master of all dharmas; the entire great earth is in my hands at once." Fortunately, it has no connection! Arriving here, one must be a genuine person; upon barely hearing it brought up, see through it to bone and marrow, without falling into emotional thoughts and conceptual notions. If one is an authentic itinerant patch-robed monk, seeing him like this, he has already sloppily acted on people's behalf. Look at Xuedou's verse eulogy: