萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 1.77

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師云。圓收十號。出世獨尊。抖擻眉毛。昂藏鼻孔。講肆謂之陞座。禪林號曰上堂。諸人未到法堂。萬松未出方丈。向那時薦得。已是落三落四了也。不見雪竇道。眾中若有仙陀客。何必文殊下一槌。點檢將來。雪竇不合索鹽。萬松那堪奉馬。直饒七佛祖師。道諦觀法王法法王法如是。也須眼裏抽釘腦後拔楔始得。至今開堂末後。白槌云諦觀法王法法王法如是。舉此例也。世尊便下座去。且救得一半。那一半分付天童。頌云。

The Master said: Completely encompassing the ten epithets, uniquely honored in appearing in the world, shaking his eyebrows, raising high his nostrils. Lecture halls call it "ascending the seat"; Chan groves name it "entering the hall." Before you all arrived at the Dharma Hall, before Wansong had come out of the abbot's quarters—if you comprehended it at that time, you were already lagging behind by three or four steps. Have you not seen Xuedou say: "If there were a saindhava guest in the assembly, why would Mañjuśrī need to strike a single blow with the gavel?" Checking into it thoroughly: Xuedou ought not to have asked for salt, and how could Wansong bear to present a horse? Even if the teacher of the seven buddhas said, "Clearly observe the Dharma of the Dharma King; the Dharma of the Dharma King is like this," one must pull out the nails from his eyes and extract the wedges behind his skull before he has it. Down to the present day, when concluding the opening of the hall, striking the gavel and saying, "Clearly observe the Dharma of the Dharma King; the Dharma of the Dharma King is like this," cites this precedent. The Bhagavān immediately went down from the seat—this at least rescues one half. The other half is handed over to Tiantong. The verse says: