[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003) › 8.16 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 8.16 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 8.16 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.8.16) 金牛乃馬祖下尊宿。每至齋時。自將飯桶。於僧堂前作舞。呵呵大笑云。菩薩子喫飯來。如此者二十年。且道他意在什麼處。若只喚作喫飯。尋常敲魚擊鼓。亦自告報矣。又何須更自將飯桶來。作許多伎倆。莫是他顛麼。莫是提唱建立麼。若是提唱此事。何不去寶華王座上。敲床竪拂。須要如此作什麼。今人殊不知。古人意在言外。何不且看祖師當時初來底題目道什麼。分明說道。教外別傳。單傳心印。古人方便。也只教爾直截承當去。後來人妄自卜度。便道那裏有許多事。寒則向火。熱則乘涼。飢則喫飯。困則打眠。若恁麼以常情。義解詮註。達磨一宗。掃土而盡。不知古人。向二六時中。念念不捨。要明此事。雪竇云。雖然如此。金牛不是好心。只這一句。多少人錯會。所謂醍醐上味。為世所珍。遇斯等人。翻成毒藥。金牛既是落草為人。雪竇為什麼道。不是好心。因什麼却恁麼道。衲僧家須是有生機始得。今人不到古人田地。只管道見什麼心。有什麼佛。若作這見解。壞却金牛老作家了也。須是子細看始得。若只今日明日。口快些子。無有了期。後來長慶上堂。僧問。古人道。菩薩子喫飯來。意旨如何。慶云。大似因齋慶讚。尊宿家忒殺慈悲。漏逗不少。是則是。因齋慶讚。爾且道。慶讚箇什麼。看他雪竇頌云。 > Jinniu was a venerable elder under Master Ma. Whenever it came to mealtime, he would personally bring the rice bucket, dance in front of the monks' hall, and with a great guffaw of laughter say, "Bodhisattva-children, come eat rice!" He did this for twenty years. Tell me: where was his intention? If you call it merely eating rice, normally striking the wooden fish and beating the drum is also announcement enough. Why then would he further need to bring the rice bucket personally and perform so many antics? Could he be crazy? Could he be promoting and establishing \[the teaching\]? If he were promoting this matter, why not go to the precious flower-throne, strike the bench, and erect the whisk? What need was there to act like this? People today completely fail to realize that the ancients' meaning lay outside of words. Why not just look at what the topic of the ancestral master when he first came said? It clearly said: a special transmission outside the teachings, sole transmission of the mind-seal. The ancients' skillful means were only to have you directly undertake it. Later people rashly guess and calculate, saying, "Where are there so many things? When cold, face the fire; when hot, take the shade; when hungry, eat rice; when tired, take a nap." If you interpret and gloss it with ordinary sentiments and conceptual explanations in this way, Bodhidharma's single lineage is swept into the dust and finished. They do not know that the ancients, throughout the twenty-four hours of the day, thought after thought did not abandon it, wanting to clarify this matter. Xuedou said, "Although this is so, Jinniu did not have a good mind." Over just this one phrase, how many people have misunderstood! It is what is called: the supreme flavor of ghee, prized by the world; meeting with such people, it turns instead into poison. Since Jinniu entered the weeds for others' sake, why did Xuedou say, "He did not have a good mind"? For what reason did he speak like this? A patch-robed monk must possess living dynamic function to attain it. Today's people do not reach the ancients' ground; they only insist, "What mind is there to see? What Buddha is there?" If you form this view, you ruin old master craftsman Jinniu. You must examine it closely before you get it. If you only talk glibly today and tomorrow, there will never be an end. Later, Changqing ascended the hall, and a monk asked, "The ancient said, 'Bodhisattva-children, come eat rice!' What was the meaning?" Changqing said, "It is much like celebrating and praising on the occasion of a feast." Venerable elders are excessively compassionate; they leak not a little. True enough, it is "celebrating and praising on the occasion of a feast"; but tell me, what does he celebrate and praise? See Xuedou's verse, which says: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.8.15) - [Next: 8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.8.17) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.8.16) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.8.16) · Pramāṇa