佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 6.24

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雪竇偏會下注脚。他是雲門下兒孫。凡一句中。具三句底鉗鎚。向難道處道破。向撥不開處撥開。去他緊要處頌出。直道兔馬有角。牛羊無角。且道兔馬為什麼有角。牛羊為什麼却無角。若透得前話。始知雪竇有為人處。有者錯會道。不道便是道。無句是有句。兔馬無角。却云有角。牛羊有角。却云無角。且得沒交涉。殊不知。古人千變萬化。現如此神通。只為打破爾這精靈鬼窟。若透得去。不消一箇了字。兔馬有角牛羊無角。絕毫絕氂。如山如嶽。這四句。似摩尼寶珠一顆相似。雪竇渾淪地。吐在爾面前了也。末後皆是據欵結案。黃金靈骨。今猶在。白浪滔天何處著。此頌石霜與大原孚語。為什麼無處著。隻履西歸曾失却。靈龜曳尾。此是雪竇轉身為人處。古人道。他參活句不參死句。既是失却。他一火為什麼。却競頭爭。

Xuedou is particularly adept at appending annotations. He is a descendant under Yunmen; in every single phrase he is equipped with the tongs and hammer of the three phrases. At the place difficult to speak of, he speaks it out; at the place that cannot be cleared away, he clears it away. Going to its critical point, he versifies it, saying directly: "Hares and horses have horns; oxen and sheep have no horns." And tell me, why do hares and horses have horns, while oxen and sheep have no horns? If you can penetrate the preceding dialogue, only then will you know that Xuedou has a way of helping people. There are those who mistakenly understand, saying: "Not speaking is precisely speaking; having no phrase is having a phrase; hares and horses have no horns, yet he says they have horns; oxen and sheep have horns, yet he says they have no horns." This has no connection whatsoever! Little do they know that the ancients underwent thousands of transformations and manifested such spiritual powers solely to shatter your ghost-cave of phantoms. If you can penetrate it, it does not take even the single word "complete." "Hares and horses have horns; oxen and sheep have no horns. Not a single strand of hair, not a single hair-tip; like mountains, like peaks." These four lines are just like a single wish-fulfilling jewel; Xuedou has spat it out entirely whole before you. The concluding parts all decide the case on the basis of the confession: "The golden holy relics are still present now; white waves surging to the heavens—where can they be placed?" This versifies the words of Shishuang and Taiyuan Fu. Why is there nowhere to place them? "Returning to the West with a single sandal, it was once lost." A spiritual turtle dragging its tail—this is where Xuedou turns about to help people. An ancient said, "He investigates living phrases, not dead phrases." Since it was lost, why did that crowd of them vie with one another?