萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 1.118

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舉。百丈上堂。常有一老人。聽法隨眾散去。（閙中取靜）一日不去（從來疑著這漢）丈乃問立者何人（事不解交客來須待）老人云。某甲於過去迦葉佛時。曾住此山（元是當家人）有學人問。大修行底人還落因果也無（但行好事莫問前程）對他道不落因果（一句合頭語萬劫繫驢橛）墮野狐身五百生（爾道不落因果）今請和尚代一轉語（著甚來由）丈云。不昧因果（一坑埋却）老人於言下大悟（狐涎猶在）。

Case: When Baizhang went up to the hall, there was always an old man who listened to the Dharma and dispersed with the assembly. (Taking quiet amid the noise.) One day he did not leave. (He has always been suspicious of this fellow.) Zhang then asked, "Who is the person standing there?" (Things cannot be ended easily; when a guest arrives, he must be received.) The old man said, "In the time of the past Kāśyapa Buddha, I once resided on this mountain. (Originally an insider.) A student asked, 'Does a person of great cultivation still fall into cause and effect or not?' (Just do good deeds; do not ask about the path ahead.) I answered him, 'He does not fall into cause and effect,' (One matching phrase becomes a hitching post for donkeys for myriad kalpas.) and I fell into the body of a wild fox for five hundred lifetimes. (You say 'not falling into cause and effect'?) Now I ask the Venerable to give a turning word in my place." (What is the purpose of this?) Zhang said, "He is not blind to cause and effect." (Buried in a single pit.) The old man attained great awakening at these words. (The fox spittle is still there.)