佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.27

9.27

雲門室中垂語接人。爾等諸人脚跟下。各各有一段光明。輝騰今古逈絕見知。雖然光明。恰到問著又不會。豈不是暗昏昏地。二十年垂示。都無人會他意。香林後來請代語。門云。厨庫三門。又云。好事不如無。尋常代語只一句。為什麼這裏却兩句。前頭一句為爾略開一線路教爾見。若是箇漢。聊聞舉著剔起便行。他怕人滯在此。又云。好事不如無。依前與爾掃却。如今人纔聞舉著光明。便去瞠眼云。那裏是厨庫。那裏是三門。且得沒交涉。所以道。識取鉤頭意。莫認定盤星。此事不在眼上。亦不在境上。須是絕知見忘得失。淨裸裸赤灑灑。各各當人分上究取始得。雲門云。日裏來往日裏辨人。忽然半夜無日月燈光。曾到處則故是。未曾到處取一件物。還取得麼。參同契云。當明中有暗。勿以暗相覩。當暗中有明。勿以明相遇。若坐斷明暗。且道是箇什麼。所以道。心花發明。照十方剎。盤山云。光非照境。境亦非存。光境俱忘。復是何物。又云。即此見聞非見聞。無餘聲色可呈君。箇中若了全無事。體用何妨分不分。但會取末後一句了。却去前頭游戲。畢竟不在裏頭作活計。古人道。以無住本。立一切法。不得去這裏弄光影弄精魂。又不得作無事會。古人道。寧可起有見如須彌山。不可起無見如芥子許。二乘人多偏墜此見。雪竇頌云。

Yunmen addressed the assembly in his room to receive people: Under the heels of every one of you, each possesses a radiance that blazes through past and present, far transcending views and knowledge. Although there is radiance, as soon as you are questioned, you do not understand; is this not being pitch dark? For twenty years he gave this pointer, and no one understood his meaning. Later, Xianglin requested an alternative answer; Yunmen said: 'The storeroom, the triple gate.' He also said: 'A good thing is not as good as nothing.' Usually an alternative answer is just one phrase; why are there two phrases here? The former phrase opens a crack of a path for you to see. If you are a true fellow, upon hearing it brought forward, you immediately prick up your ears and walk. Fearing that people might linger here, he also said: 'A good thing is not as good as nothing'—once again sweeping it away for you. Nowadays, as soon as people hear radiance mentioned, they stare wide-eyed and say: 'Where is the storeroom? Where is the triple gate?' This has no connection at all! Therefore it is said: 'Recognize the intention at the hook's tip; do not settle upon the marks of the steelyard.' This matter does not lie in the eyes, nor does it lie in the realm of objects. You must cut off knowledge and views, forget gain and loss, be bare and stark, naked and clean, and investigate it for yourselves individually before you will attain it. Yunmen said: 'Coming and going in daylight, you discern people in daylight. If suddenly at midnight there is no light of sun, moon, or lamp, in places you have been you may still manage, but in places you have never been, can you pick up an object?' The Sandokai says: 'Right within light there is darkness, do not view it as darkness; right within darkness there is light, do not meet it as light.' If you sit through and cut off both light and darkness, tell me, what is it? Therefore it is said: 'The mind-flower unfolds in radiance, illuminating the lands of the ten directions.' Panshan said: 'Radiance does not illuminate objects, nor do objects exist; when both radiance and objects are forgotten, what is it again?' He also said: 'This very hearing and seeing is not hearing and seeing; there is no remaining sound or form to present to you. If you thoroughly understand within this, there is nothing at all to do; what harm is there whether essence and function are divided or not?' Just understand the final phrase, and then go and play in what went before; ultimately, do not make your living within it. The ancients said: 'Based on non-abiding, establish all phenomena.' You must not play with shadows and play with spirits here, nor should you understand it as having nothing to do. The ancients said: 'Better to give rise to a view of existence as vast as Mount Meru than to give rise to a view of non-existence as tiny as a mustard seed.' People of the Two Vehicles mostly fall into this one-sided view. Xuedou's verse says: