佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 4.16

4.16

團團珠遶玉珊珊。馬載驢駝上鐵船。雪竇當頭頌出。只頌箇圓相。若會得去。如虎戴角相似。這箇些子。須是桶底脫機關盡。得失是非。一時放却。更不要作道理會。也不得作玄妙會。畢竟作麼生會。這箇須是馬載驢駝上鐵船。這裏看始得。別處則不可分付。須是將去分付海山無事底客。爾若肚裏有些子事。即承當不得。這裏須是有事無事。違情順境。若佛若祖奈何他不得底人。方可承當。若有禪可參。有凡聖情量。決定承當他底不得。承當得了。作麼生會。他道釣鼇時下一圈攣。釣鼇須是圈攣始得。所以風穴云。慣釣鯨鯢澄巨浸。却嗟蛙步碾泥沙。又云。巨鼇莫戴三山去。吾欲逢萊頂上行。雪竇復云。天下衲僧跳不出。若是巨鼇。終不作衲僧見解。若是衲僧。終不作巨鼇見解。

"Round and round, pearls encircle and jades tinkle, / Loaded onto horses and carried by donkeys onto an iron boat." Xuedou eulogizes it directly at the head, eulogizing only this circle. If you can understand it, it is like a tiger bearing horns. For this matter, the bottom of the bucket must fall out, and all mechanisms must be exhausted; gain and loss, right and wrong must be cast away all at once. Furthermore, do not understand it through rational principles, nor understand it through mysterious subtlety. Ultimately, how to understand it? For this, one must load it onto horses and carry it by donkeys onto an iron boat; only by observing it here can it be attained. In another place it cannot be entrusted; it must be taken and entrusted to the idle guest of the ocean mountain. If you have the slightest matter in your belly, you cannot undertake it. Here, it must be someone whom neither matters nor no-matters, neither adverse circumstances nor favorable realms, neither Buddhas nor ancestral masters can do anything with, before they can undertake it. If one has Chan to practice and thoughts and measures of the mundane and holy, one definitely cannot undertake his [teaching]. Having undertaken it, how to understand it? He says, "When angling for the giant turtle, down goes a hoop." For angling for the giant turtle, one must have a hoop to begin with. Therefore Fengxue said: "Accustomed to angling for whales and dolphins in the cleared expanse of the vast ocean, / I lament the frog-step grinding in the mud and sand." Again he said: "Let the giant turtle not carry off the three mountains, / I wish to walk atop Mount Penglai." Xuedou further said: "Patch-robed monks throughout the world cannot leap out." If one is a giant turtle, one never holds the view of a patch-robed monk; if one is a patch-robed monk, one never holds the view of a giant turtle.