佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 6.47

6.47

只如雲門道。挂杖子化為龍。吞却乾坤了也。山河大地甚處得來。若道有則瞎。若道無則死。還見雲門為人處麼。還我拄杖子來。如今人不會他雲門獨露處。却道即色明心。附物顯理。且如釋迦老子四十九年說法。不可不知此議論。何故。更用拈花。迦葉微笑。這老漢便搽胡道。吾有正法眼藏涅槃妙心。分付摩訶大迦葉。更何必單傳心印。諸人既是祖師門下客。還明得單傳底心麼。胸中若有一物。山河大地。摐然現前胸中若無一物。外則了無絲毫。說什麼理與智冥境與神會。何故一會一切會。一明一切明。長沙道。學道之人不識真。只為從前認識神。無量劫來生死本。癡人喚作本來人。忽若打破陰界。身心一如身外無餘。猶未得一半在。說什麼即色明心附物顯理。古人道。一塵纔起。大地全收。且道是那箇一塵。若識得這一塵。便識得拄杖子。纔拈起拄杖子。便見縱橫妙用。恁麼說話。早是葛藤了也。何況更化為龍。慶藏主云。五千四十八卷。還曾有恁麼。說話麼。雲門每向拄杖處。拈掇全機大用。活潑潑地為人。芭蕉示眾云。衲僧巴鼻。盡在拄杖頭上。永嘉亦云。不是標形虛事褫。如來寶杖親蹤跡。如來昔於然燈佛時。布髮掩泥。以待彼佛。然燈曰。此處當建梵剎。時有一天子。遂標一莖草云。建梵剎竟。諸人且道。這箇消息。從那裏得來。祖師道。棒頭取證。喝下承當。且道承當箇什麼。忽有人問。如何是拄杖子。莫是打筋斗麼。莫是撫掌一下麼。總是弄精魂。且喜沒交涉。雪竇頌云　褫（音馳）。

Just as Yunmen said: "The staff has transformed into a dragon and swallowed up heaven and earth. Where do the mountains, rivers, and great earth come from?" If you say it exists, then you are blind; if you say it does not exist, then you are dead. Do you still see the place where Yunmen instructs people? Return my staff to me! People today do not understand the place where Yunmen reveals it alone, but instead say: "Identifying with form to illuminate the mind; attaching to objects to reveal the principle." Even if it were old Śākya preaching the Dharma for forty-nine years, could he not have known this sort of discourse? Why then did he need to hold up a flower, with Kāśyapa smiling, whereupon this old fellow blurted out: "I have the treasury of the true Dharma eye, the wondrous mind of nirvāṇa, which I entrust to Mahākāśyapa"? What need was there further to transmit singly the mind-seal? Since you people are guests at the ancestral masters' gate, can you also understand this singly transmitted mind? If there is a single thing in your chest, the mountains, rivers, and great earth appear tumultuously before you; if there is not a single thing in your chest, outside there is completely not the slightest hair. What talk is there of "principle and wisdom merging, realm and spirit conjoining"? Why? When one is understood, all are understood; when one is clear, all are clear. Changsha said: "Students of the Way do not recognize the real, only because they have always recognized the conscious spirit. The root of birth and death for immeasurable kalpas—fools call it the original person." If you suddenly break through the realm of the aggregates, body and mind become as one with nothing remaining outside the body, yet you still have not obtained even half of it. What talk is there of identifying with form to illuminate the mind, or attaching to objects to reveal the principle? An ancient said: "As soon as a single dust mote arises, the great earth is completely gathered in." Tell me, which single dust mote is this? If you recognize this single dust mote, you will recognize the staff. As soon as you pick up the staff, you will see its unhindered wondrous functioning. Speaking like this is already entangling vines, let alone transforming into a dragon! Head of the Repository Qing said: "In the 5,048 fascicles, has there ever been such talk?" Yunmen always brought forward the total dynamic and great functioning at the staff, enlivening people. Bajiao showed the assembly: "The hold of patch-robed monks is entirely at the tip of the staff." Yongjia also said: "It is not an empty convention of outward form; the Tathāgata's precious staff is his very footprint." Formerly, in the time of Dīpaṅkara Buddha, the Tathāgata spread his hair over the mud to wait for that Buddha. Dīpaṅkara said: "A monastery should be built at this spot." At that time a devaputra stuck in a blade of grass and said: "The monastery has been built." Tell me, all of you, from where does this message come? An ancestral master said: "Attaining verification at the staff's end; undertaking responsibility under the shout." Tell me, what do you undertake responsibility for? If someone suddenly asks: "What is the staff?" Could it be doing a somersault? Could it be clapping the hands once? These are all playing with ghosts and spirits; fortunately, they have no connection whatsoever. Xuedou's eulogy says: Chi (pronounced chi [in the phrase 'xushi chi', meaning to strip away/empty ritual]).