佛祖歷代通載 16.15

16.15

（八）　時有凌行婆者。嘗謁浮杯和上。與喫茶次。婆問。盡力道不得底句。還分付阿誰。曰浮杯無剩語。婆云。我不恁麼道。曰爾作麼生道。婆斂手哭曰。蒼天中更冤苦。杯無語。婆云。語不知偏正為人即禍生。後有僧舉似南泉。泉云。苦哉浮杯。却被老婆摧折。婆聞南泉語乃笑曰。王老師猶少機關在。有澄一禪者。見婆問。怎生是南泉猶少機關在。婆乃哭曰。可悲可痛。一罔措。婆云。會麼。一合掌而立。婆云。伎死禪和如麻似粟。後澄一舉似趙州。州云。我若見這臭老婆問教口啞在。一云。未審和上怎生問他。州以棒打云。似這伎死禪和。不打更待何時。連打數棒。婆聞趙州恁麼道乃曰。趙州自合喫婆手裏棒在。後有僧舉似趙州。州哭云。可悲可痛。婆聞趙州此語乃合掌曰。趙州眼放光明照破四天下。後趙州令僧去問。怎生是趙州眼。婆乃竪起拳頭。趙州聞之。乃以一偈寄云。當機直面提。直面當機疾。報爾凌行婆。哭聲何得失。婆亦以一偈答曰。哭聲師已曉。已曉復誰知。當時摩竭國。機喪目前機。

(8) At that time, there was Old Woman Ling, who once visited the Venerable Fubei. While they were drinking tea together, the old woman asked, 'The phrase that cannot be spoken even with utmost effort—to whom do you entrust it?' [Fubei] said, 'Fubei has no surplus words.' The old woman said, 'I would not say it like that.' [Fubei] said, 'How would you say it?' The old woman pulled back her hands, wept, and said, 'Blue Heaven! What an even greater injustice!' Fubei was silent. The old woman said, 'If speech does not know the partial and the correct, when [directed toward] another, disaster arises.' Later, a monk brought this up to Nanquan. Nanquan said, 'How bitter, Fubei! He was broken by an old woman.' When the old woman heard Nanquan's words, she laughed and said, 'Old Master Wang still lacks the mechanism.' There was a Chan practitioner named Chengyi who met the old woman and asked, 'How is it that Nanquan still lacks the mechanism?' The old woman then wept and said, 'How lamentable, how grievous!' Chengyi was at a loss. The old woman said, 'Do you understand?' Chengyi stood with palms joined. The old woman said, 'Dead-drudge Chan monks are like hemp and millet.' Later, Chengyi brought this up to Zhaozhou. Zhaozhou said, 'If I had met that foul old woman, I would have questioned her until her mouth was struck dumb.' Chengyi said, 'I wonder how the Venerable would question her?' Zhaozhou hit him with a staff, saying, 'A dead-drudge Chan monk like this—if I do not hit him now, what am I waiting for?' and struck him several times in succession. When the old woman heard that Zhaozhou had said this, she said, 'Zhaozhou himself ought to eat a blow from this old woman's hand.' Later, a monk brought this up to Zhaozhou. Zhaozhou wept, saying, 'How lamentable, how grievous!' When the old woman heard these words of Zhaozhou, she joined her palms and said, 'Zhaozhou's eyes emit bright light, illuminating and breaking through the four continents.' Later, Zhaozhou sent a monk to ask, 'What are Zhaozhou's eyes like?' The old woman raised her fist. When Zhaozhou heard this, he sent her a verse, saying: 'Meeting the dynamic, hold it up directly face-to-face; / Face-to-face meeting the dynamic, it is swift. / I tell you, Old Woman Ling: / In the sound of weeping, what gain or loss is there?' The old woman also answered with a verse, saying: 'The Master has already understood the sound of weeping; / Having understood it, who else knows? / At that time in the country of Magadha, / The function died before the dynamic right in front of the eyes.'