佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 5.7

5.7

[Case 42] Case: Layman Pang took leave of Yaoshan. (This old fellow makes strange trouble.) / Shan ordered ten Chan practitioners to see him off to the gate. (He does not treat him lightly. What kind of realm is this? One must be a patch-robed monk who recognizes the clues.) / The Layman pointed to the snow in the air and said, "Fine snow, flake by flake, not falling anywhere else." (Raising waves without wind. His fingertips have eyes. This old fellow has resonance in his words.) / At the time, Chan Practitioner Quan said, "Where does it fall?" (Hit! He follows along. Sure enough, he took the bait.) / The Layman gave him a slap. (Hit! Sure enough. Inviting a thief into the house.) / Quan said, "The Layman must not be careless!" (Staring wide-eyed in the coffin.) / The Layman said, "If you call yourself a Chan practitioner like this, Old Yama hasn't released you yet!" (A second ladle of foul water poured out. Not just Old Yama—this mountain monk here will not let you pass either.) / Quan said, "What about the Layman?" (His crude mind unchanged. Again asking for a beating. From beginning to end, this monk finds no advantage.) / The Layman gave him another slap, (Sure enough. Adding frost to snow. Having taken the beating, he submits his confession.) / saying, "The eyes see as if blind; the mouth speaks as if mute." (He even has a concluding verdict; again he reads him the judgment.) / Xuedou remarked differently: "At the initial question, he should have just balled up a lump of snow and struck him." (Granted, but that is drawing the bow after the thief has passed. It leaks quite a bit. Even so, one wants to see arrowheads meeting point-to-point. How can one help that it has fallen into the ghost cave?)