佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 10.25

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頭兮第一第二。人只管理會第一第二。正是死水裏作活計。這箇機巧。爾只作第一第二會。且摸索不著在。雪竇云。臥龍不鑒止水。死水裏豈有龍藏。若是第一第二。正是止水裏作活計。須是洪波浩渺白浪滔天處。方有龍藏。正似前頭云澄潭不許蒼龍蟠。不見道。死水不藏龍。又道。臥龍長怖碧潭清。所以道。無龍處有月波澄。風恬浪靜。有龍處無風起浪。大似保福道喫茶去。正是無風起浪。雪竇到這裏。一時與爾打疊情解頌了也。他有餘韻。教成文理。依前就裏頭。著一隻眼。也不妨奇特。却道稜禪客稜禪客。三月禹門遭點額。長慶雖是透龍門底龍。却被保福驀頭一點。

"Head: the primary, the secondary!" People only occupy themselves with understanding the primary and the secondary; this is precisely making a living in dead water. If you only understand this dynamic cleverness as primary and secondary, you still cannot grope and find it. Xue竇 says: "The crouching dragon does not look into still water." How could a dragon be hidden in dead water? If it were primary and secondary, it would be precisely making a living in still water. Only where vast billows are boundless and white waves surge to the heavens is there a dragon hidden. This is just like saying earlier: "A clear pool does not permit a blue dragon to coil." Have you not heard it said: "Dead water does not hide a dragon"? And it is said: "A crouching dragon is always afraid of the clarity of a green pool." Therefore it is said: "Where there is no dragon, the moon shines and waves are calm"—the wind is serene and the waves are still; "Where there is a dragon, waves rise without wind." It is very much like Baofu saying, "Go drink tea"—this is precisely waves rising without wind. When Xuedou reached this point, all at once he swept away your emotional interpretations and completed the verse. He had an echoing resonance, bringing it into literary pattern: as before, within it he applied an eye, which was indeed extraordinary. Yet he says: "Chan traveler Leng! Chan traveler Leng! / In the third month at Yu's Gate, he suffered a point on the forehead!" Although Changqing was a dragon that had passed through the Dragon Gate, he was struck right on the forehead by Baofu.