佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 3.25

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雪竇頌得甚好。有轉身處。不守一隅。便道眼裏塵沙耳裏土。此一句頌蓮花峯庵主。衲僧家到這裏。上無攀仰下絕己躬。於一切時中如癡似兀。不見南泉道。學道之人。如癡鈍者也難得。禪月詩云。常憶南泉好言語。如斯癡鈍者還希。法燈云。誰人知此意。令我憶南泉。南泉又道。七百高僧。盡是會佛法底人。唯有盧行者不會佛法。只會道。所以得他衣鉢。且道佛法與道相去多少。雪竇拈云。眼裏著沙不得。耳裏著水不得。或若有箇漢。信得及把得住。不受人瞞。祖佛言教是什麼熱碗鳴聲。便請高掛鉢囊。拗折拄杖。管取一員無事道人。又云。眼裏著得須彌山。耳裏著得大海水。有一般漢。受人商量。祖佛言教。如龍得水。似虎靠山。却須挑起鉢囊。橫擔拄杖。亦是一員無事道人。復云。恁麼也不得。不恁麼也不得。然後沒交涉。三員無事道人中。要選一人為師。正是這般生鐵鑄就底漢。何故或遇惡境界。或遇奇特境界。到他面前。悉皆如夢相似。不知有六根。亦不知有旦暮。直饒到這般田地。切忌守寒灰死火。打入黑漫漫處去。也須是有轉身一路始得。不見古人道。莫守寒巖異草青。坐却白雲宗不妙。所以蓮花峯庵主道。為他途路不得力。直須是千峯萬峯去始得。且道喚什麼作千峯萬峯。雪竇只愛他道楖𣗖橫擔不顧人。直入千峯萬峯去。所以頌出。且道向什麼處去。還有知得去處者麼。落花流水太茫茫。落花紛紛。流水茫茫。閃電之機。眼前是什麼。剔起眉毛何處去。雪竇為什麼也不知他去處。只如山僧道適來舉拂子。且道即今在什麼處。爾諸人若見得。與蓮花峯庵主同參。其或未然。三條椽下。七尺單前。試去參詳看。

Xuedou's verse eulogy is very fine. It has a turn-around point; he does not guard one corner. So he said: "Dust and sand in the eyes, dirt in the ears." This one line eulogises the master of Lotus Peak Hermitage. For patch-robed monks reaching this point, above there is nothing to climb or revere, below there is an end to self and person; at all times they are like fools, like stumps. Don't you see Nanquan saying: "For a practitioner of the Way, to be like a fool, dull and blunt, is also hard to come by." The poem by Chanyue says: "I often recall Nanquan's fine words: / One who is dull and blunt like this is rare indeed." Fadeng said: "Who knows this meaning, / That makes me recall Nanquan?" Nanquan also said: "The seven hundred eminent monks were all people who understood the Buddha Dharma; only Worker Lu did not understand the Buddha Dharma—he only understood the Way. That is why he received the robe and bowl." Tell me, how much distance is there between the Buddha Dharma and the Way? Xuedou cited this and said: "Sand cannot be put into the eyes; water cannot be put into the ears. If there is a fellow who has complete faith and can hold fast, not deceived by others—what is the verbal teaching of the buddhas and ancestral masters but the sound of a heated bowl ringing? Then please hang high the alms-bag, snap the staff, and be assured of being a person of the Way of no-concerns." He also said: "Mount Meru can be put into the eyes; the great ocean's water can be put into the ears. There is a sort of fellow who accepts others' deliberations, to whom the teachings of buddhas and ancestral masters are like a dragon reaching water, like a tiger relying on a mountain. Then he must shoulder his alms-bag and carry his staff crosswise; this too is a person of the Way of no-concerns." Again he said: "Like this will not do; not like this will not do either; and after that, no connection whatsoever. Among these three persons of the Way of no-concerns, if you want to choose one to be master, it is precisely this sort of fellow forged of pig iron." Why? Whether encountering an evil realm or an extraordinary realm, when it comes before him, it is completely like a dream: he does not know of the six sense-bases, nor does he know of morning or evening. Even if you reach this terrain, take utmost care not to guard cold ashes and dead fire, plunging into pitch darkness; you must have the single road of turning around before it will do. Don't you see an ancient saying: "Do not guard the green of strange grasses on a cold crag; / Sitting in the white clouds, the lineage is not wondrous." That is why the master of Lotus Peak Hermitage said: "Because on the road, he found no leverage; he had to go straight into the thousand peaks and myriad peaks before it would do." Tell me, what is called the thousand peaks and myriad peaks? Xuedou simply loved his saying: "Carrying his staff crosswise, paying no heed to others, he went straight into the thousand peaks and myriad peaks." Therefore he eulogised it in verse. Tell me, where did he go? Is there anyone who knows the place he went? "Fallen blossoms, flowing streams: vast and boundless!" The fallen blossoms are fluttering; the flowing streams are vast and boundless. Dynamic function like lightning! What is before your eyes? "Raising the eyebrows, where did he go?" Why did Xuedou also not know the place he went? Just as when this mountain monk recently raised the whisk—tell me, where is it right now? If you people can see it, you join in practice with the master of Lotus Peak Hermitage. If not yet, then under the three rafters, before the seven-foot mat, try going to investigate and see!