萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 3.82

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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).