佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 5.10

5.10

雪團打雪團打。龐老機關沒可把雪竇要在居士頭上行。古人以雪明一色邊事。雪竇意道。當時若握雪團打時。居士縱有如何機關。亦難搆得。雪竇自誇他打處。殊不知有落節處。天上人間不自知。眼裏耳裏絕瀟灑。眼裏也是雪。耳裏也是雪。正住在一色邊。亦謂之普賢境界一色邊事。亦謂之打成一片。雲門道。直得盡乾坤大地無纖毫過患。猶為轉句。不見一色。始是半提。若要全提。須知有向上一路始得。到這裏須是大用現前。針劄不入。不聽他人處分。所以道。他參活句。不參死句。古人道。一句合頭語。萬劫繫驢橛。有什麼用處。雪竇到此頌殺了。復轉機道。只此瀟灑絕。直饒是碧眼胡僧也難辨別。碧眼胡僧尚難辨別。更教山僧說箇什麼。

"Hit with snowballs! Hit with snowballs! Layman Pang's mechanisms cannot be grasped." Xuedou wanted to walk upon the layman's head. The ancients used snow to clarify matters on the side of one color. Xuedou's meaning was: if at that time he had taken a snowball and hit him, even if the layman had whatever mechanisms, he would still have found it difficult to engage. Xuedou boasted of where he hit, completely unaware that there was a flaw. "In heaven and among humans, he does not know himself; / In the eyes and in the ears, utterly free and unconstrained." In the eyes it is snow; in the ears it is also snow. He is abiding right on the side of one color. This is also called the realm of Samantabhadra, matters on the side of one color; it is also called "becoming one whole piece." Yunmen said: "Even if the entire universe and great earth have not the slightest flaw, this is still a turning phrase; not seeing a single color is only half the presentation. If you want the full presentation, you must know there is a road beyond." Arriving here, the great function must appear before you; a needle cannot prick in, and one does not listen to another's judgment. Therefore it is said: "He investigates living phrases, he does not investigate dead phrases." An ancient said: "A single fitting phrase is an ass-tethering stake for ten thousand kalpas." What use is it? Having versified this to death, Xuedou again turns the dynamic mechanism, saying: just this utter freedom and unconstraint—even if it were the blue-eyed barbarian monk, he too would find it difficult to discern. If even the blue-eyed barbarian monk finds it difficult to discern, what more would you have this mountain monk say?