[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004) › 2.61 # 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 2.61 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 2.61 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.61) 師云。古人臨機遇物。發明空劫以前一段大事。法華經云。純一無雜具足清白梵行之相。說者以謂。白是眾色之本。一乘是諸乘之源。而不說白色向上更有事在。故仰山指雪師子。示眾云。還有過得此色者麼。且白是眾色之本。雪色至白。如何更有過此色者。萬松道。既稱為色。必與眼對。過白之色。唯無色者。不與眼對。雲門所以道。當時便與推倒。若便向至白無白處。認著正是墮在無色界中。雪竇所以別指出一條活路。向推倒處。却教扶起。佛眼云。若向這裏扶持起來。甚生次第事。萬松道。若是他宗異派。不道不得。更須知有洞上宗風正倒時便起。正起時便倒底時節。然後起倒同時。起倒不立。更買草鞋。行脚三十年不見。佛覺頌云。一色無過指示人。白銀世界裏頻申。超然推倒還扶起。爭似東風煦日新。萬松道。日出後一場懡㦬。一等學人。見雲門推倒雪竇扶起。便作機鋒轉換。大用無方會。見向一色邊不得色邊會。以為宗旨血脈。已有佛覺為證。如或不信。更問天童。頌云。 > The Master said: When the ancients encountered things according to the moment, they clarified the one great affair prior to the empty kalpa. The Lotus Sūtra says: "Pure, unmixed, fully possessing the marks of pure, clean brahma-practice." Commentators take this to mean that white is the basis of all colors, and the One Vehicle is the source of all vehicles, but they do not speak of there being something beyond the color white. Therefore, Yangshan pointed to the snow lion and instructed the assembly, saying, "Is there anyone who can surpass this color?" Now, white is the basis of all colors, and the color of snow is white to the utmost; how could there be anything surpassing this color? / Wansong says: Since it is called a color, it must face the eye. What surpasses the color white is only that which has no color, which does not face the eye. This is why Yunmen said, "At that moment, I would have pushed it over for him." If you immediately recognize and cling to the place of utmost white where there is no white, you fall precisely into the formless realm. This is why Xuedou pointed out another living road: at the place where it was pushed over, he instead directed that it be helped up. / Foyan said, "If you support it and help it up here, what sort of orderly affair is that?" / Wansong says: Were it another school or different faction, I would not say it cannot be done; yet you must further know that there is the Dongshan family style where at the very moment of falling it rises, and at the very moment of rising it falls. Thereafter, rising and falling are simultaneous, and neither rising nor falling is established. Even if you buy more straw sandals and travel for thirty years, you will not see it. / Fojue's verse says: "Pointing it out to others without surpassing the single color, / Stretching and yawning in the world of pure silver; / Supremely pushing it over and helping it up again— / How could that match the fresh warmth of the east wind's sunny day?" / Wansong says: After the sun comes out, a total embarrassment. / Some students, seeing Yunmen push it over and Xuedou help it up, immediately interpret it as a shift in sharp dynamics, an unobstructed great functioning; or seeing it on the side of the single color, they interpret it on the side of not being color, taking that as the ancestral lineage. Fojue has already testified to this; if you do not believe it, ask Tiantong further. His verse says: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.60) - [Next: 2.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.62) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004~en-mt.2.61) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.61) · Pramāṇa