佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 2.19

2.19

對一說。太孤絕。雪竇讚之不及。此語獨脫孤危。光前絕後。如萬丈懸崖相似。亦如百萬軍陣。無爾人處。只是忒殺孤危。古人道。欲得親切。莫將問來問。問在答處。答在問端。直是孤峻。且道什麼處是孤峻處。天下人奈何不得。這僧也是箇作家。所以如此問。雲門又恁麼答。大似無孔鐵鎚重下楔相似。雪竇使文言。用得甚巧。閻浮樹下笑呵呵。起世經中說。須彌南畔吠琉璃樹。映閻浮洲中皆青色。此洲乃大樹為名。名閻浮提。其樹縱廣七千由旬。下有閻浮壇金聚。高二十由旬。以金從樹下出生故。號閻浮樹。所以雪竇自說。他在閻浮樹下笑呵呵。且道他笑箇什麼。笑昨夜驪龍拗角折。只得瞻之仰之。讚嘆雲門有分。雲門道。對一說似箇什麼。如拗折驪龍一角相似。到這裏若無恁麼事。焉能恁麼說話。雪竇一時頌了。末後却道。別別。韶陽老人得一橛。何不道全得。如何只得一橛。且道那一橛。在什麼處。直得穿過第二人。

"An exposition facing one is exceedingly solitary and absolute"—Xuedou could not praise it enough. These words stand uniquely independent, solitary and precipitous, shining before and cutting off behind, just like a ten-thousand-fathom cliff, or like an army of millions where you find no place to enter. It is just exceedingly solitary and precipitous. An ancient said, "If you want intimacy, do not bring a question to question. The question is at the place of the answer; the answer is on the tip of the question." It is downright solitary and towering. And tell me, where is the solitary and towering place? Nobody in the world can do anything about it. This monk was also an adept, which is why he asked like this; Yunmen also answered thus, very much like driving a wedge again into an iron hammer without a hole. Xuedou's use of literary language was extremely skillful. "Laughing ha-ha beneath the jambu tree"—the *Sūtra on the Arising of the World* says: South of Mount Meru, the vaḍūrya tree reflects all green onto Jambudvīpa. This continent is named after the great tree, called Jambudvīpa. The tree is seven thousand yojanas in breadth and length. Beneath it is a mound of Jāmbūnada gold twenty yojanas high; because the gold is produced from beneath the tree, it is called the jambu tree. Therefore Xuedou said of himself that he was laughing ha-ha beneath the jambu tree. And tell me: what was he laughing at? Laughing that "last night, the black dragon's horn snapped." One can only gaze up at it; Xuedou has a share in praising Yunmen. Yunmen's saying "an exposition facing one"—what is it like? It is like snapping a horn of the black dragon. When arriving here, if one did not have such an affair, how could one speak such words? When Xuedou had finished the verse all at once, at the very end he said instead: "Distinctive, distinctive! The old man of Shaoyang obtained one half of the piece." Why did he not say he obtained the whole? Why did he only obtain one half of the piece? And tell me: where is that other half of the piece? It goes straight through to penetrate a second person.