萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 5.13

5.13

師云。潭州石霜慶諸禪師。初在溈山充米頭。方篩米次。溈曰。施主物不可拋棄。霜曰。不拋棄。溈於地拾一粒示之曰。爾道不拋棄。這箇甚處得來。師無對。溈曰。莫欺這一粒。百千粒從這一粒生。霜曰。然則這一粒。自何處生。溈大笑歸方丈。晚上堂曰。大眾米裏有蟲。後參道吾。問觸目菩提。吾喚沙彌添淨瓶水。悟如前舉。霜在道吾。兩夏而受印。會昌之厄。混跡潭州瀏陽陶家坊。朝游夕處。大中初有僧。自洞山至舉。洞山初秋夏末。兄弟或東或西。直須向萬里無寸草處去。良久曰。只如萬里無寸草處。又作麼生去。霜曰。出門便是草。僧復舉似洞山。山曰。此是一千五百人善知識語。且大唐國裏能有幾人。囊錐始露住石霜道場。果符悟本之記。二十年海眾千餘。往往長坐不臥。屹若株杌。枯木堂名自茲立焉。僧問撥塵見佛。所問是一。夾山道。若不揮劍漁父棲巢。石霜道。渠無國土何處逢渠。萬松道。入理深談不如石霜。門庭施設猶較夾山百步。莫有兩彩一賽底麼。天童道甚。頌云。

The Master said: Chan Master Qingzhu of Shishuang in Tanzhou was originally the rice steward under Guishan. Just as he was sifting rice, Gui said: "The things of the almsgivers must not be cast away." Shuang said: "They are not cast away." Gui picked up a single grain from the ground, showed it to him, and said: "You say they are not cast away; where did this one come from?" The Master had no reply. Gui said: "Do not slight this one grain; hundreds of thousands of grains are born from this one grain." Shuang said: "Then where was this single grain born from?" Gui laughed loudly and returned to his abbot's quarters. In the evening he entered the hall and said: "Assembly, there is a worm in the rice!" Later he visited Daowu and asked about "Bodhi touching the eyes." Wu called to the novice to add water to the pure pitcher; his awakening was as related previously. Shuang was with Daowu for two summer retreats and received the seal. During the Huichang persecution, he mingled among the crowds at the Tao family pottery works in Liuyang, Tanzhou, wandering in the morning and lodging in the evening. In the early Dazhong era, a monk came from Dongshan and recounted: In early autumn and late summer, Dongshan said, "Brothers going east or west must go straight to the place where there is not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles." After a pause, he said, "Just as to the place where there is not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles, how do you go?" Shuang said: "Stepping out the door, there is already grass." The monk again raised this to Dongshan. Shan said: "These are the words of a good friend to fifteen hundred people! How many such people can there be in the Great Tang empire?" The awl in the bag was first exposed, and he stayed at the Shishuang training ground, truly matching the prediction of Wuben. For twenty years, his sea of an assembly numbered over a thousand; they often sat continuously without lying down, standing tall like stumps, and the name 'Hall of Dried Wood' was established from this. The monk asked about sweeping away dust to see the Buddha; what was asked was the same. Jiashan said: "If you do not brandish the sword, the fisherman roosts in a nest." Shishuang said: "He has no realm; where will you meet him?" Wansong says: For profound discourse entering principle, he is not as good as Shishuang; for household arrangements, he is still a hundred paces behind Jiashan. Is there anyone who wins two colors in a single contest? What did Tiantong say? The verse says: