佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 6.28

6.28

"I bring out the master within the pass for you— (Hit! Missed right in front. Fall back! Fall back!) / You who shoot arrows, do not be reckless! (Once dead, never revived again. A huge blunder.) / Take an eye, and the ear must be deafened; (The left eye is half a pound. Letting a move pass. The left does not advance, the right does not fall back.) / Abandon an ear, and both eyes go blind. (The right eye is eight ounces. There is only one path: stepping forward drops into a pit and moat; stepping back, a fierce tiger bites your heel.) / How pitiable: a single arrowhead breaks through the three passes! (What about when the whole dynamic comes forth like this? What did he say? Broken! Fallen!) / Distinct and clear is the path behind the arrow. (A dead fellow. Bah! Striking, he says: Do you still see?) / Do you not see: (A leper dragging a companion along; off he goes making entangling vines.) / Xuansha has words: (Which one is not Xuansha?) / 'The great man takes what precedes Heaven as the ancestor of mind!'" (One phrase cuts off the flow; the myriad dynamics are laid to rest. The nostrils are in my hands. Before heaven, earth, and the world existed, where did you settle your body and establish your life?)