佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 8.28

8.28

"Exhausting the dynamic function does not result in blindness." Changqing said, "If one exhausts his dynamic function, does he still turn out blind?" Baofu said, "Can you say that I am blind?" This is just like pushing a cow's head down to eat grass: one must wait for it to eat by itself; where is there pushing its head down to make it eat? When Xuedou eulogizes like this, one naturally sees Danxia's meaning. "The four-seven and two-three ancestral masters: / When the precious vessel is brought out, it turns into a fault!" Not only does this drag down Changqing, but even the twenty-eight Indian patriarchs and the six patriarchs of this land are buried at once. Old Śākya, for forty-nine years, preached the great Tripiṭaka teaching, and at the very end only transmitted this precious vessel. Yongjia said, "It is not an empty display of outward marks; / It bears the personal traces of the Tathāgata's precious staff." If one adopts Baofu's view, bringing out the precious vessel turns entirely into a fault. "The fault is deep, nowhere to be sought." This cannot be explained to you; just go sit quietly and check it out within his phrase. Since the fault is deep, why is it nowhere to be sought? This is no small fault: it sinks the great matter of the ancestral masters all at once on dry land. Therefore Xuedou said, "In heaven and among men, drowned together on dry land!"