佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.34

9.34

"The entire great earth is medicine; / From ancient times to the present, how utterly mistaken!" If you understand it as medicine, then from ancient times to the present, all at once you are mistaken. Xuedou said: "There are some fellows who do not know how to cut off the heels of Damei, but just keep saying that he was in too much of a hurry on his journey. He knew how to cut off Yunmen's heels, because this single phrase of Yunmen's confuses and bewilders everyone under heaven." Yunmen said, "The staff is a wave—I allow you to move freely in all directions. The entire great earth is a wave—see how you bob up and down!" "Closing the door, one does not make a cart; / The thoroughfare is naturally vast and open." Xuedou says: I open a thread of a path for you. If you close your door to build a cart, and when you go out the door it fits the rut, what good does that do? Here with me, even with the door closed I do not make a cart; stepping out the door, it is naturally vast and open. Here he slightly reveals a chink to let people see, and then hurriedly says, "Mistaken, mistaken!" Before was mistaken; after is also mistaken. Who knew that Xuedou opening a thread of a path was also mistaken? Since nostrils point to the heavens, why are they also pierced through? Do you want to understand? Practice for thirty years! If you have a staff, I will give you a staff; if you have no staff, you cannot avoid having your nostrils pierced through by others.