萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 2.63

2.63

The Master said: Yunmen pushes it down; Xuedou helps it up; Yangshan points to the lion, wanting to surpass this color. Like the three legs of a tripod, not one can be missing. The three mysteries and three essentials are completely present here. Yangshan feared people would sit in clarity; is this not "cautious about violation, yet harboring benevolence"? Pointing it out to people to make them surpass this color; is this not "cautious in action, seeing what is right"? The Analects of Lu states: "To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage." Yunmen also feared people would sit on the side of the single color; is this not "cautious about violation, yet harboring benevolence"? Immediately pushing it over for him is also "cautious in action, seeing what is right." Xuedou feared people would only know how to push it over; this is "cautious about violation, yet harboring benevolence." Being able further to help it up is "cautious in action, seeing what is right." / Have you not seen: Zhaozhou said, "This old monk is not inside clarity." Truly, when pure light shines in the eyes, one still loses one's way home; turning around in clarity, one cannot avoid falling into rank. If you only know how to push it over and do not know how to help it up, what are you good for? A genuine patchrobed monk is like a pearl rolling in a bowl: though dying together and living together, he does not abide in life and death; though there is neither "that" nor "this," he provisionally establishes this and that. / As for the last two lines: sometimes beneath the sun; sometimes before the hall of the bright moon. Boundless space throughout ten thousand kalpas; a morning's wind and moon. Morning mushrooms and summer cicadas—and tell me, what season is it right now? Just follow the old tree in its cold bareness; about to chase the spring breeze into the burnt scars.