[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003) › 2.8 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 2.8 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 2.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.2.8) 這箇公案。多少人錯會。直是難咬嚼。無爾下口處。何故淡而無味。古人有多少答佛話。或云。殿裏底。或云。三十二相。或云。杖林山下竹筋鞭。及至洞山。却道麻三斤。不妨截斷古人舌頭。人多作話會道。洞山是時在庫下。秤麻。有僧問。所以如此答。有底道。洞山問東答西。有底道。爾是佛。更去問佛。所以洞山遶路答之。死漢更有一般道。只這麻三斤便是佛。且得沒交涉。爾若恁麼去洞山句下尋討。參到彌勒佛下生。也未夢見在。何故言語只是載道之器。殊不知古人意。只管去句中求。有什麼巴鼻。不見古人道。道本無言。因言顯道。見道即忘言。若到這裏。還我第一機來始得。只這麻三斤。一似長安大路一條相似。舉足下足。無有不是。這箇話。與雲門餬餅話。是一般。不妨難會。五祖先師頌云。賤賣擔板漢。貼秤麻三斤。千百年滯貨。無處著渾身。爾但打疊得情塵意想。計較得失是非。一時淨盡自然會去。 > How many people have misunderstood this gong'an! It is truly difficult to chew on; there is nowhere for you to sink your teeth in. Why? Because it is insipid and without flavor. How many answers did the ancients give to questions about the Buddha! One said, 'The one inside the hall.' Another said, 'The thirty-two marks.' Another said, 'A staff of bamboo shoots from Mount Zhanglin.' But when it came to Dongshan, he said instead, 'Three pounds of hemp.' This indeed cuts off the tongues of the ancients! Many people take it as an ordinary conversational remark, saying, 'Dongshan was in the storehouse weighing hemp at that time, and when a monk asked him, he answered like that.' Some say, 'Dongshan was asked about the east and answered about the west.' Some say, 'You are the Buddha, yet you go seeking a Buddha, so Dongshan gave a roundabout answer.' Even worse, there is a brand of corpses who say, 'Just these three pounds of hemp are the Buddha!' This has no connection at all! If you go searching under Dongshan's words in this way, even if you investigate until Maitreya Buddha's descent, you will not have even dreamed of it. Why? Words are merely vessels to carry the Way. Not knowing the ancient's intention, you just seek within the phrasing—what hold is there in that? Have you not seen the ancient who said: 'The Way is fundamentally wordless; through words the Way is revealed. When the Way is perceived, words are forgotten.' If you reach this realm, you must return the foremost dynamic function to me before you can succeed! Just these three pounds of hemp are just like the great road to Chang'an: lifting a foot or setting down a foot, nowhere is it not \[the road\]. This case is the same as Yunmen's 'sesame cake' case; it is indeed hard to understand. My late teacher Wuzu said in verse: > 'Selling cheap the fellow carrying a board, > Throwing in three pounds of hemp on the scale. > Dead stock for a thousand or a hundred years, > Nowhere to place his whole body.' > If only you can sweep away feelings, defilements, thoughts, and concepts, along with calculations of gain and loss, right and wrong, making them utterly clean all at once, you will naturally come to understand. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.2.7) - [Next: 2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.2.9) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.2.8) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.2.8) · Pramāṇa