萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 6.13

6.13

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."