佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 3.32

3.32

If you grasp it here, you will first see where Yunmen acts to help people. If not, then as before, it is only pointing at a deer and calling it a horse, blind and deaf. Who could reach such a realm? Tell me, was Yunmen answering his words, or was he harmonizing with him? If you say he was answering his words, you have misread the markings on the balance scale. If you say he was singing in harmony with him, that misses the point entirely. Since it is neither, ultimately what is it? If you can see through, a patch-robed monk's nostrils will not take even a pinch. If not, you will still be knocked back into the den of ghosts. As a rule, to uphold the lineage school, one must take up the burden with one’s whole being, not begrudging one's eyebrows, throwing one's body into the tiger's jaws, letting oneself be dragged and pulled about arbitrarily. If one is not like this, how can one help people? This monk posed a question that was no small peril. If viewed as an ordinary matter, he seems like a monk meddling in idle concerns. But viewed from the portal of patch-robed monks, looking into the life-vein, there is indeed a wondrous point. Tell me, whose realm is 'when the tree withers and the leaves fall'? Among the eighteen kinds of questions, this is called 'a question testing the host', and also 'a question borrowing phenomena'. Without shifting a single hairsbreadth, Yunmen just said to him: 'The body is exposed in the golden wind.' The answer was exceedingly wondrous, nor did he fail the monk's question. Because the question had eyes, the answer was also true to the mark. An ancient said: 'If you want intimate intimacy, do not bring a question to question.' If you are an adept who knows the tune, you know where it falls as soon as it is raised. If you search within the thread of Yunmen's words, you have already gone wrong. Yet in Yunmen's phrases, he often likes to stir people's emotional calculations. If you understand it through emotional calculation, you cannot avoid losing my sons and grandsons. Yunmen loved to ride the thief's horse in pursuit of the thief like this. Have you not seen a monk ask: 'What is the place beyond thinking?' Yunmen said: 'Consciousness and feeling are difficult to fathom.' This monk asked: 'When the tree withers and leaves fall, how is it?' Yunmen said: 'The body is exposed in the golden wind.' Within the phrase, he does not hesitate to cut off the crucial crossing, admitting neither ordinary nor sage. You must understand his raising one and clarifying three, raising three and clarifying one. If you seek it within his three phrases, you are pulling arrows from the back of your skull. Within his single phrase, the three phrases must naturally be present: the phrase containing heaven and earth, the phrase following the waves and chasing the billows, and the phrase cutting off the myriad streams—then naturally it fits precisely. Among Yunmen's three phrases, tell me: which phrase did he use to receive the person? Try to discern it and see. The verse says: