人天眼目 1.10

1.10

僧問。如何是人境俱奪。師云。并汾絕信獨處一方（大慧云。便有人境俱奪面目。又云。吾初讀諸家禪錄。見并汾紀信之語。深以為疑。雖詰諸老。皆含糊不辨。既閱臨濟語。則知絕信二字。葢并汾二州名。僧問人境兩俱奪。答云。獨處一方。其旨曉然。方悟諸師之集皆有鳥焉之誤）。

A monk asked: 'What is snatching away both person and environment?' The Master said: 'Bing and Fen cut off communication, dwelling isolated in one quarter.' (Dahui said: 'Here you have the very face of snatching away both person and environment.' He also said: 'When I first read the Chan records of the various masters, seeing the words "Bing and Fen's Ji Xin", I had deep doubts about it. Although I questioned various elders, they were all vague and did not distinguish it. Once I read Linji's sayings, I then knew the two characters "cut off communication" [juexin]: they are simply the names of the two prefectures Bing and Fen. A monk asked about snatching away both person and environment, and he answered: "dwelling isolated in one quarter" [duchu yifang]. Its meaning was brightly clear; only then did I realise that the collections of the various masters all suffered from scribal errors.')