萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 3.124

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師云。般若無知。靡所不知。故淨涵有餘也。晉元帝永昌元年。王敦鎮武昌。舉兵犯闕。刀協勸帝。盡誅王氏。王導帥群從。詣臺待罪。周顗將入朝。導呼之曰。伯仁以百口累汝。顗不顧。及入極論導忠誠。申救甚至。及出導尚在門。又呼之不應。乃曰。今年殺賊奴。取金印如斗大。繫肘後。尋又上表。明導無罪。導不知甚恨之。敦兵既至。乃問導。周顗可得生否。導不應。敦乃殺顗。導後料中書。見顗救已表。流涕曰。幽冥之中負此良友。叢林又有肘後符。春秋後語。趙簡子告諸子曰。吾藏肘後寶符於常山上。先得者賞。諸子馳山上。求無所得。唯襄子母䘏還曰。䘏已得之符矣。他人皆不可分。簡子請奏之。母䘏曰。從常山上下臨代可取也。簡子曰。母䘏賢矣。立為太子。雲巖示眾云。有箇人家兒子。問著無有道不得底。洞山出云。他屋裏有多少書籍。巖云。一字也無。洞山云。得恁麼多知。巖云。日夜不曾眠。洞山又云。問一段事得也無。巖云。道得即不道。肘後誰分印。深密自得之道。他人皆不可分也。家中不蓄書。得恁多知。生而知之上。學而知之次也。這驢覻井。井覻驢。還許分割領覽分也無。還許學解傳布也無。夾山云。聞中生解。意下丹青。目下即美。久蘊成病。青山與白雲。從來不相到。機絲不掛梭頭事。文彩縱橫意自殊。嘉祥一路智者知疎。瑞草無根賢者不貴。天童末後全用夾山一聯。以明此話不落思惟。文彩自備。且道。具何三昧。便得如斯。只箇無巴鼻。諸般沒奈何。

The Master said: Prajñā is without knowing, yet there is nothing it does not know; hence "purity contains with a surplus." In the first year of the Yongchang reign of Emperor Yuan of Jin, Wang Dun was garrisoned at Wuchang and raised troops to attack the palace. Diao Xie urged the emperor to execute the entire Wang clan. Wang Dao led his kinsmen to the palace terrace to await punishment. As Zhou Yi was about to enter the court, Dao called to him, "Boren, I entrust a hundred lives to you!" Yi did not look back. When he went inside, he argued vigorously for Dao's loyalty and pleaded for his rescue with the utmost urgency. When he came out, Dao was still at the gate and called to him again, but Yi did not answer, merely saying, "This year, kill the rebel slaves and take a gold seal as big as a bushel to tie behind my elbow!" Soon afterward, he submitted another memorial clarifying Dao's innocence. Dao, unaware of this, resented him deeply. When Dun's troops arrived, Dun asked Dao, "May Zhou Yi be spared?" Dao did not answer, so Dun killed Yi. Later, when Dao was checking the Department of the Imperial Secretariat, he saw Yi's memorial saving him and wept, saying, "In the dark of ignorance, I failed this good friend!" In the monasteries there is also the "talisman behind the elbow." The *Continuation of the Spring and Autumn Annals* says: Zhao Jianzi told his sons, "I have hidden a precious talisman behind my elbow on Mount Chang; whoever finds it first shall be rewarded." The sons galloped up the mountain and searched, but found nothing. Only Xiangzi, Wuxu, returned and said, "Wuxu has obtained the talisman! None of the others can share in it." Jianzi asked him to report it, and Wuxu said, "Looking down from Mount Chang upon Dai, it can be taken." Jianzi said, "Wuxu is worthy!" and established him as heir apparent. Yunyan instructed the assembly, saying, "There is a son of a certain family; when questioned, there is nothing he cannot say." Dongshan came forward and said, "How many books are in his house?" Yan said, "Not even a single word." Dongshan said, "How did he get so much knowledge?" Yan said, "Day and night he never sleeps." Dongshan again said, "May I ask about a certain matter?" Yan said, "If it could be said, I would not say it." "Who can share the seal behind the elbow?"—the deeply secret way of self-attainment cannot be shared by others. "In the house, no books are kept"—getting so much knowledge: to be born with knowledge is highest; to learn and know it is next. As for this "donkey peering into a well, well peering at a donkey," does it allow of division and comprehension? Does it allow of learned understanding and dissemination? Jiashan said, "Understanding arising from hearing, painting in the mind—though fine before the eyes, held long it becomes a disease. Green mountains and white clouds have never reached one another. The loom's threads do not hang upon the work at the shuttle's head, yet the patterns run crisscross and the meaning is spontaneously distinct." "On the single road of Jiaxiang, the wise know detachment; auspicious grass without roots is not valued by the worthy." Tiantong at the end fully uses Jiashan's couplet to clarify that this dialogue does not fall into conceptual thought, its patterns being spontaneously complete. Tell me: endowed with what samādhi does one attain such a state? Merely having no nostrils, utterly helpless in every way.