禪林寶訓 3.64

3.64

萬菴曰古人上堂先提大法綱要審問大眾。學者出來請益遂形問答。今人杜撰四句落韻詩。喚作釣話。一人突出眾前。高吟古詩一聯。喚作罵陣。俗惡俗惡可悲可痛。前輩念生死事大對眾決疑。既以發明未起生滅心也。

Wan'an said: “When the ancients ascended the hall, they first brought up the main outline of the great Dharma to examine the great assembly, and when students came forward to seek instruction, questions and answers took shape. People nowadays fabricate four-line poems that lose the rhyme and call them ‘hooking words’; one person steps forward from the assembly and loudly chants a couplet of an ancient poem, calling it ‘taunting the ranks.’ How vulgar and vile! How vulgar and vile! It is lamentable and distressing. The predecessors were mindful of the great matter of saṃsāra, resolving doubts before the assembly; once enlightened, they did not give rise to thoughts of production and cessation.”