佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.12

9.12

雲門大師。出八十餘員善知識。遷化後七十餘年。開塔觀之。儼然如故。他見地明白。機境迅速。大凡垂語別語代語。直下孤峻。只這公案。如擊石火。似閃電光。直是神出鬼沒。慶藏主云。一大藏教還有這般說話麼。如今人多向情解上作活計。道佛是三界導師四生慈父。既是古佛。為什麼却與露柱相交。若恁麼會。卒摸索不著。有者喚作無中唱出。殊不知宗師家說話。絕意識絕情量。絕生死絕法塵。入正位更不存一法。爾纔作道理計較。便纏脚纏手。且道他古人意作麼生。但只使心境一如。好惡是非。撼動他不得。便說有也得無也得。有機也得無機也得。到這裏拍拍是令。五祖先師道。大小雲門元來膽小。若是山僧。只向他道第八機。他道。古佛與露柱相交。是第幾機。一時間且向目前包裹。僧問。未審意旨如何。門云。一條絛三十文買。他有定乾坤底眼。既無人會。後來自代云。南山起雲北山下雨。且與後學通箇入路。所以雪竇只拈他定乾坤處教人見。若纔犯計較露箇鋒鋩。則當面蹉過。只要原他雲門宗旨。明他峻機。所以頌出云。

Master Yunmen produced over eighty kalyāṇamitras. More than seventy years after his passing, his stūpa was opened and inspected: he was dignified as before. His insight was clear, and his dynamic situations were swift. In general, his instructive words, alternative words, and substitute words were straightforwardly solitary and steep. This gong'an alone is like flint-struck fire, like a flash of lightning—truly manifesting like spirits and vanishing like ghosts. Head Monk Qing said, 'Does the entire Tripiṭaka teaching still have this kind of talk?' Nowadays, people mostly make a living based on emotional interpretations, saying: 'The Buddha is the guide of the triple world and the compassionate father of the four kinds of beings; since he is the ancient Buddha, why would he intersect with the exposed pillar?' If you understand it this way, you will never grasp it. Some call it 'singing out from within nothingness.' Little do they know that when lineage masters speak, it cuts off conscious thinking and cuts off emotional calculation; it cuts off birth and death and cuts off Dharma dust. Entering the true position, not a single dharma is preserved. The moment you formulate a rationalization and make calculations, your feet and hands are bound. Tell me, what was that ancient's meaning? He merely made mind and environment as one, so that good and bad, right and wrong could not shake him. Then speaking of existence works, and speaking of nonexistence works; having dynamic function works, and lacking dynamic function works. Arriving here, every clap is the imperative. My late teacher Wuzu said, 'Yunmen, big and small, turned out to be faint-hearted. Had it been this mountain monk, I would simply have told him: the eighth dynamic.' He said, 'The ancient Buddha and the exposed pillar intersect—which dynamic is this?' Temporarily, he wrapped it up before their eyes. A monk asked, 'I wonder, what is the meaning?' Yunmen said, 'A braided cord bought for thirty cash.' He possessed the eye that fixes heaven and earth. Since no one understood, later he spoke on their behalf: 'Clouds arise on the southern mountain; / Rain falls on the northern mountain,' tentatively opening an entry path for later students. Thus Xuedou merely brought up his place of fixing heaven and earth to let people see it. If you slightly lapse into calculations or expose a sharp tip, you will miss it face to face. One only needs to trace back to Yunmen's fundamental principle and clarify his precipitous dynamic. Therefore, he produced a eulogy saying: