佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 8.33

8.33

超談禪客問偏多。此語禪和家偏愛問。不見雲門道。爾諸人橫擔拄杖。道我參禪學道。便覓箇超佛越祖道理。我且問爾。十二時中。行住坐臥。屙屎放尿。至於茅坑裏蟲子市肆買賣羊肉案頭。還有超佛越祖底道理麼。道得底出來。若無莫妨我東行西行。便下座。有者更不識好惡。作圓相。土上加泥。添枷帶鎖。縫罅披離見也麼。他致問處。有大小大縫罅。雲門見他問處披離。所以將餬餅攔縫塞定。這僧猶自不肯住。却更問。是故雪竇道。餬餅𡎺來猶不住。至今天下有誵訛。如今禪和子。只管去餬餅上解會。不然去超佛越祖處作道理。既不在這兩頭。畢竟在什麼處。三十年後。待山僧換骨出來。却向爾道。

"Questions about transcendent talk are especially numerous among Chan guests." Chan fellows are especially fond of asking this. Have you not seen Yunmen say: "All of you shoulder your staff horizontally, saying, 'I investigate Chan and study the Way,' and immediately look for the principle of transcending the Buddhas and going beyond the patriarchs. Let me ask you: in the twelve periods of the day, walking, standing, sitting, lying down, defecating, urinating, down to the maggots in the privy and the mutton stall in the market—is there still the principle of transcending the Buddhas and going beyond the patriarchs? Anyone who can speak, come forth! If not, do not hinder me from walking east and west." Then he stepped down from the seat. There are those who do not recognize good or bad, drawing a circle—adding mud to earth, adding cangues and locks. "Can you see the cracks and seams splitting apart?" Where he posed his question, how immensely great were the cracks and seams! Seeing where his question split apart, Yunmen therefore blocked and plugged it with "sesame cake." This monk was still unwilling to stop, and asked again. Therefore Xuedou says, "The sesame cake crammed in, he still does not stop; to this day there is confusion throughout the world." Nowadays Chan fellows merely try to understand it on the sesame cake, or else they concoct doctrines on transcending the Buddhas and going beyond the patriarchs. Since it is not in these two extremes, where ultimately is it? Thirty years from now, wait until this mountain monk changes his bones and comes forth, and then I will tell you.