佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 7.2

7.2

[Case 61] Citing: Fengxue gave a guiding phrase, saying: (Bringing forth clouds and causing rain; one must also act as host and guest.) / "If one speck of dust is established, (I am the Dharma King, sovereign over phenomena. Flowers in clusters, brocades in heaps.) / the country flourishes; (This is not an affair of his house.) / if not one speck of dust is established, (Sweeping away traces and extinguishing tracks. Losing eyes and losing nostrils along with them.) / the country perishes." (Radiance everywhere. What use is a country? Entirely an affair of his own house.) / Xuedou held up his staff and said: (One must stand steep like a thousand-fathom cliff; only then will it do. Bodhidharma has come!) / "Are there any patch-robed monks who will live together and die together?" (Return my topic to me! Even though it is like this, to level uneven affairs, you must deliberate with Xuedou before it will do. Do you understand? If you understand, I grant you freedom and ease; if you do not understand, three thousand blows in the morning and eight hundred in the evening.)