萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 3.82

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師云。黃蘗初參百丈。丈云。巍巍堂堂。來為何事。蘗云。巍巍堂堂不為別事。巍堂磊落。皆大丈夫相。干戈叢裡橫身直過。荊棘林中擺手便行。脚跟下無五色線。舌頭上無十字關。鼻端無泥痕。眼中無金屑。豈不是安樂快活底漢。試將天童莫道著三字。換萬松四箇不字。便見一字法門海墨書而不盡。德山道。一大藏教。是拭不淨故紙。為已了者恐透牛皮也。千年故紙中合藥者。為未了者不妨遮眼也。慈覺道。圓覺楞嚴恒為已伴。況世尊入滅至庚辰歲。已二千一百七十年。豈但千年故紙。仙傳葛由能刻木羊。騎羊上綏山。後遇浮丘公。曰。若不脚下線斷。爾也不得自由。暗合永嘉放四大莫把捉。寂滅性中隨飲啄。諸行無常一切空。即是如來大圓覺。雖然如是。猶欠作云何梵在。

The Master said: When Huangbo first visited Baizhang, Baizhang said, 'Towering and grand, what have you come for?' Huangbo said, 'Towering and grand, not for anything else.' Towering and grand, open and magnanimous—these are all marks of a great hero. Across a thicket of weapons, crossing straight through with body bared; amidst a forest of brambles, walking off with a swing of the arms. Under the heels, no five-colored cord; on the tongue, no ten-way barrier; on the tip of the nose, no trace of mud; in the eyes, no gold dust. Is this not a person of peace and joy? Try taking Tiantong's three words 'do not touch' and replacing Wansong's four 'no's; then you will see that the ink of the ocean cannot finish writing the one-character Dharma-gate. Deshan said, 'The entire great canon of teachings is scrap paper for wiping filth'—said for those who have already understood, lest it pierce through ox-hide. 'Compounding medicine amid thousand-year-old scrap paper' does no harm in shielding the eyes for those who have not yet understood. Cijue said, 'The *Complete Enlightenment* and *Śūraṅgama* are constantly my companions.' Furthermore, from the Bhagavān's entering nirvāṇa to the gengchen year, it has already been 2,170 years—how could it be merely thousand-year-old scrap paper? The *Biographies of Immortals* says Ge You could carve wooden sheep; riding a sheep, he ascended Mount Sui, and later met Master Fuqiu, who said: 'If the cord under your feet is not severed, you too cannot be free.' This secretly tallies with Yongjia: 'Let the four great elements go, do not grasp them; / In the nature of quiescence, drink and peck at will. / All conditioned things are impermanent, all are empty— / That is the great complete enlightenment of the Tathāgata.' Even though it is like this, there is still lacking the chanting of the *How Sūtra* (*Kiṃśuka* hymn).