佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 1.3

1.3

自四十二章經入中國。始知有佛。自達磨至六祖傳衣。始有言句。曰本來無一物為南宗。曰時時勤拂拭為北宗。於是有禪宗頌古行世。其徒有翻案法。呵佛罵祖。無所不為。間有深得吾詩家活法者。然所謂第一義。焉用言句。雪竇圜悟。老婆心切。大慧已一炬丙之矣。嵎中張煒明遠。燃死灰復板行。亦所謂老婆心切者歟。大德四年庚子。四月初八日癸丑。紫陽山方回萬里序。

Ever since the Sūtra of Forty-two Chapters entered China, people first knew there was a Buddha. From Bodhidharma down to the Sixth Ancestor's transmission of the robe, words and phrases first emerged: 'Originally not a single thing exists' was the Southern School; 'constantly strive to wipe it clean' was the Northern School. Thereupon the Chan school's verse eulogies on antiquity circulated throughout the world. Its followers practiced the method of overturning cases: scolding the Buddhas and reviling the ancestral masters, there was nothing they would not do. At times there were those who deeply grasped the living methods of our poets. Yet as for the so-called paramārtha, what use could it have for words and phrases? Xuedou and Yuanwu were earnestly full of a grandmotherly heart; Dahui, however, consigned it all to a single flame. Zhang Wei, Mingyuan of Yuzhong, has now revived the dead ashes and recut the printing blocks—can he not also be called earnestly full of a grandmotherly heart? Prefaced by Fang Hui Wanli of Mount Ziyang on the eighth day of the fourth month, a guichou day, in the gengzi year, the fourth year of the Dade era [1300].