佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 7.38

7.38

雙收雙放若為宗。放行互為賓主。仰山云。汝名什麼。聖云。我名惠寂是雙放。仰山云。惠寂是我。聖云。我名惠然是雙收。其實是互換之機。收則大家收。放則大家放。雪竇一時頌盡了也。他意道。若不放收。若不互換。爾是爾我是我。都來只四箇字。因甚却於裏頭。出沒卷舒。古人道。爾若立我便坐。爾若坐我便立。若也同坐同立。二俱瞎漢。此是雙收雙放。可以為宗要。騎虎由來要絕功。有如此之高風最上之機要。要騎便騎。要下便下。據虎頭亦得。收虎尾亦得。三聖仰山。二俱有此之風。笑罷不知何處去。且道他笑箇什麼。直得清風凜凜為什麼。末後却道。只應千古動悲風。也是死而不弔。一時與爾注解了也。爭柰天下人啗啄不入。不知落處。縱是山僧。也不知落處。諸人還知麼。

"Both gathering in and both letting go—how should this be taken as the essential principle?" Giving free rein, they act as host and guest to one another. Yangshan said: "What is your name?" Sansheng said: "My name is Huiji"—this is both letting go. Yangshan said: "Huiji is me." Sansheng said: "My name is Huiran"—this is both gathering in. In reality, it is the dynamic function of mutual exchange: when gathering in, both gather in; when letting go, both let go. Xuedou versified it completely in one stroke. His meaning was: if there were no letting go and gathering in, no mutual exchange, then you would be you and I would be I—in all, there would be only four words; why then within them emerge and submerge, roll up and roll out? The ancients said: "If you stand, I sit; if you sit, I stand. If we both sit together or both stand together, both are blind men." This is both gathering in and both letting go, which can serve as the essential principle. "Riding a tiger has always required peerless skill." Possessing such lofty style and the highest dynamic pivot: if you want to mount, mount at once; if you want to dismount, dismount at once. Holding down the tiger's head is fine; grasping the tiger's tail is also fine. Sansheng and Yangshan both had this style. "Having laughed, he knows not where to go." Tell me: what was he laughing at, such that the pure breeze is chillingly awe-inspiring? Why at the end does it say: "It should only stir the sorrowful wind for a thousand ages"? This too is "dying without anyone mourning"; all at once it has been commented on and explained for you. Yet how can it be helped that the people of the world cannot bite or peck into it, and do not know where it lands? Even this mountain monk does not know where it lands. Do you all know?