萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 6.13

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師云。萬古常空一朝風月。豈止三十年用不殘。莊子大宗師篇。孔子曰。彼游方之外者也。而丘游方之內者也。若無方外之術。爭得世出世間全在一指頭上見徹根源。古詩道。眼前無俗物。多病也身輕。天童近取諸身。唯用一指。簡易之道。要而不繁。維摩毛吞大海名小不思議經。華嚴。塵含法界名大不思議經。楞嚴於一毛端。遍能含受十方國土。又云於一毛端現寶王剎。坐微塵裏轉大法輪。莊子任公子為大鉤巨緇。五十犗以為餌。蹲乎會稽。投竿東海。旦旦而釣。期年不得魚。已而大魚食之。牽巨鉤䤾沒而下。驚揚而奮鬐。白波若山。海水震蕩。聲侔鬼神。燀赫千里。任公子得若魚。離而腊之。自制浙河以東。蒼梧以北。莫不厭若魚者。所謂。釣竿斫盡重栽竹。不計功程得便休。後來接得斷指童子。國泰瑫別峯相見。嘉山來誤入桃源。今日天童頌後。又竪一指云。看。柏山大隱和尚道。大小天童隨人脚跟走。五祖演和尚舉。僧問投子。如何是十身調御子。下禪床立。還有僧問老僧。亦下禪床立。為甚却依樣畫猫兒。待我計較成即說向爾。是知。俱胝指頭。一迴飲水。一迴著噎。教萬松別作箇甚麼向當。擲下拂子云。一任諸方點檢。

The Master said: "Ten thousand eons of permanent emptiness, a single morning's wind and moon." How could it merely be thirty years without being depleted? In the 'Great Ancestral Master' chapter of the Zhuangzi, Confucius said, "They roam beyond the realm, whereas I, Qiu, roam within it." If one lacks the art beyond the realm, how could one thoroughly see the root source of both the mundane and supramundane right upon a single finger? An ancient poem states: "Before one's eyes there are no vulgar things; though often ill, the body is light." Tiantong drew close from his own person and used only a single finger. The way of simplicity and ease is essential without being burdensome. In the Vimalakīrti[-nirdeśa], a hair absorbing the great sea is named the Minor Inconceivable Sūtra; in the Avataṃsaka, a speck of dust containing the dharmadhātu is named the Major Inconceivable Sūtra. The Śūraṅgama says that upon a single tip of hair, it is thoroughly able to contain and receive the lands of the ten directions; it also says that upon a single tip of hair, the precious king's realm appears, and seated inside a tiny dust mote, the great wheel of Dharma is turned. In the Zhuangzi, Lord Ren made a great hook and giant black cord, using fifty bullocks as bait. He squatted on Mount Kuaiji and cast his line into the Eastern Sea. Morning after morning he fished, but for a whole year caught no fish. Thereafter a huge fish swallowed it, pulling the great hook down as it submerged; it thrash-leapt and reared its fins, white waves like mountains, the seawater shaking, its sound matching ghosts and spirits, radiating over a thousand li. Lord Ren caught such a fish, chopped it and dried it; from the east of the Zhe River to the north of Cangwu, there was none who did not eat their fill of this fish. Thus it is said: "The fishing rod cut away entirely, bamboo is planted again; without counting the stages of work, stop as soon as it is obtained." Afterwards, receiving the boy of the severed finger, meeting Guotai Dao and Biefeng, and Jiashan Lai mistakenly entering the Peach Blossom Spring—today, after Tiantong's verse, he raised a finger again and said, "Look!" Master Dayin of Baishan said, "Tiantong, great and small, follows right behind others' heels." Master Wuzu Yan cited: A monk asked Touzi, "What is the Son of the Ten-Bodied Tamer?" Touzi stepped down from his meditation platform and stood. Another monk asked the old monk [Wuzu], and he too stepped down from the meditation platform and stood. Why nonetheless draw a cat according to the model? "Wait until my calculation succeeds, then I will explain to you." From this we know that with Juzhi's finger, one gulp of water brings one bout of choking. If you tell Wansong to make some other way to face it—[he] threw down his whisk and said: "I leave it entirely to the various places to inspect."