萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 6.79

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師云。臨濟有時。奪人不奪境。有時人境兩俱奪。若遇其中人。便全體作用。此臨濟格調最高處也。手上出來。手上打。眼上出來。眼上打。四方八面來。旋風打。离婁黃帝時人。百里見秋毫之末。棒頭有眼。明如日月。半點也不容。不唯掃除狐兔。亦能變化魚龍。魚躍禹門三級。雷電燒尾成龍。棒喝迅機神用如是。七事隨身。有殺人刀活人劍。浮山圓鑒遠錄公。出十六題。令投子青禪師頌。亦有殺人刀活人劍。雪竇頌巴陵吹毛劍。要平不平。大巧若拙。或指或掌。倚天照雪。宋玉大言賦。方地為輿。圓天為蓋。彎弓射榑桑。長劍倚天外。僧問臨濟。如何是吹毛劍。濟云。禍事禍事。不見道。德山釅醋。曾喫知酸。臨際用出黃蘗。傳來亦不弱。竹庵云。劈面三拳。攔腮七掌。盡大地人。不識痛痒。只有一箇認痛。猶受醫在。不見臨濟道。如蒿枝拂。相似。

The Master said: Sometimes Linji snatches the person and does not snatch the environment; sometimes he snatches both person and environment. If he encounters a person who is truly therein, he then acts with the entire substance. This is the highest level of Linji's style. If it emerges from the hands, he strikes on the hands; if it emerges from the eyes, he strikes on the eyes; if it comes from all eight directions, he strikes like a whirlwind. Lilou was a man in the time of the Yellow Emperor who could see the tip of an autumn down from a hundred li away. The tip of his staff has eyes, bright as the sun and moon, not tolerating even half a speck. Not only does he sweep away foxes and hares, he can also transform fish into dragons. When a fish leaps over the three tiers of Yu's Gate, lightning and thunder burn its tail, turning it into a dragon. Such is the swift dynamic and spiritual function of his blows and shouts. With the seven implements accompanying his body, there is the blade that kills people and the sword that enlivens people. Master Fushan Yuanjian Yuan, the monastic recorder, set forth sixteen themes and instructed Chan Master Qing of Touzi to compose verses on them; among them were also the blade that kills people and the sword that enlivens people. Xuedou's verse on Baling's hair-severing sword says: 'To level what is uneven, / Great skill seems clumsy. / Whether pointing or striking with the palm, / It leans against the sky, shining like snow.' Song Yu's *Rhapsody on Great Words* says: 'The square earth serves as the carriage, the round sky as the canopy; bending the bow to shoot at Fusang, the long sword leans beyond heaven.' A monk asked Linji: 'What is the hair-severing sword?' Linji said: 'A disaster! A disaster!' Has it not been said: 'Deshan's sharp vinegar—having once tasted it, one knows its sourness.' Linji's function derived from Huangbo, and what he transmitted was likewise not weak. Zhuan said: 'Three punches right to the face, seven slaps across the cheek; all people across the whole great earth do not know pain or itch. There is only one who recognizes the pain, yet he is still subject to treatment.' Do you not see what Linji said: 'Like brushing with a wormwood stalk'?