佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 8.42

8.42

投子投子。機輪無阻。投子尋常道。爾總道投子實頭。忽然下山三步。有人問爾。道如何是投子實頭處。爾作麼生抵對。古人道。機輪轉處。作者猶迷。他機輪轉轆轆地全無阻隔。所以雪竇道。放一得二。不見僧問。如何是佛。投子云。佛。又問。如何是道。投子云。道。又問。如何是禪。投子云。禪。又問。月未圓時如何。投子云。吞却三箇四箇。圓後如何。吐却七箇八箇。投子接人。常用此機。答這僧。只是一箇是字。這僧兩回被打。所以雪竇道。同彼同此。四句一時。頌投子了也。末後頌這僧道。可憐無限弄潮人。這僧敢攙旗奪鼓道。和尚莫㞘沸碗鳴聲。又道喚和尚作一頭驢得麼。此便是弄潮處。這僧做盡伎倆。依前死在投子句中。投子便打。此僧便是畢竟還落潮中死。雪竇出這僧云。忽然活便與掀倒禪床。投子也須倒退三千里。直得百川倒流閙𣽅𣽅。非唯禪床震動。亦乃山川岌崿。天地陡暗。苟或箇箇如此。山僧且打退鼓。諸人向什麼處。安身立命　岌（逆及切）　崿（逆各切）。

"Touzi, Touzi! The wheel of his dynamic function encounters no obstruction." Touzi habitually said: "You all say Touzi is honest. If you suddenly take three steps down the mountain and someone asks you, 'What is Touzi's honest place?' how will you reply?" An ancient said: "Where the wheel of dynamic function turns, even an adept is bewildered." His wheel of dynamic function spins smoothly without any obstruction at all. Therefore Xuedou says, "Letting go of one, he catches two." Have you not seen a monk ask, "What is the Buddha?" Touzi said, "Buddha." He asked again, "What is the Way?" Touzi said, "The Way." He asked again, "What is Chan?" Touzi said, "Chan." He also asked, "What about before the moon is full?" Touzi said, "Swallow three or four." "What about after it is full?" "Spit out seven or eight." In receiving people, Touzi constantly used this dynamic function. Replying to this monk, it was merely the single word "It is." This monk was struck twice, which is why Xuedou says, "The same over there, the same right here." Four lines eulogize Touzi all at once. At the end, he eulogizes this monk, saying: "Pitiable are the countless tide-players." This monk dared to snatch the flag and seize the drum, saying, "The venerable monk shouldn't fart and make the sound of a boiling bowl," and saying again, "Can I call the venerable monk a donkey?" This is precisely where he plays with the tide. This monk exhausted all his tricks, but as before he died within Touzi's words. Touzi struck him at once; this monk is precisely "In the end they fall into the tide and die." Xuedou brings out this monk: "If they should suddenly come alive," he would overturn the meditation seat, and Touzi would have to retreat three thousand miles. It would truly cause "The hundred rivers to flow backward with a roaring surge." Not only would the meditation seat tremble, but mountains and rivers would rear up precariously, and heaven and earth would turn pitch-dark. If indeed everyone were like this, this mountain monk would beat the retreat drum; where would you all settle your body and establish your life? Jiyue (glossed with fanqie ni-ji and ni-ge, meaning steep and craggy).