景德傳燈錄 22.29

22.29

舒州白水海會院如新禪師。師上堂良久乃曰。禮煩即亂。僧問。從上宗乘如何舉唱。師曰。轉見孤獨。僧曰。親切處乞師一言。師曰。不得雪也聽他。問如何是迦葉頓領底事。師曰。汝若領得我即不悋。僧曰。恁麼即不煩於師去也。師曰。又須著棒爭得不煩。僧問。古人橫說竪說猶未知向上一關[槴-邑+大]子。如何是向上一關[槴-邑+大]子。師曰。賴遇孃生臂短。問如何是祖師意。師曰。要道何難。僧曰。便請師道。師曰。將謂靈利又不仙陀。問羚羊挂角時如何。師曰。恁麼來又恁麼去。僧曰。為什麼如此。師曰。只見好笑不知為什麼如此。

Chan Master Ruxin of Haihui Monastery in Baishui, Shuzhou. The Master went up to the hall, and after a good while he said, "When ritual becomes cumbersome, disorder follows." A monk asked, "How do you proclaim the vehicle of the school from of old?" The Master said, "Solitude becomes ever more apparent." The monk said, "At the point of closest intimacy, I beg the Master for a single word." The Master said, "Even if you do not get snow, listen to it." [The monk] asked, "What was the matter that Kāśyapa suddenly grasped?" The Master said, "If you can grasp it, I will not begrudge it." The monk said, "If that is so, then I shall not trouble the Master." The Master said, "You must also receive the stick; how can you not trouble me?" A monk asked, "The ancients spoke horizontally and vertically, yet they did not know the transcendental barrier bolt. What is the transcendental barrier bolt?" The Master said, "Fortunately, the arm born of my mother is short." [The monk] asked, "What is the meaning of the ancestral teacher?" The Master said, "If I want to speak, what is difficult about it?" The monk said, "Then I invite the Master to speak." The Master said, "I supposed you were nimble-witted, yet you are not a Saindhava." [The monk] asked, "How is it when an antelope hangs by its horns?" The Master said, "Coming thus, it also goes thus." The monk said, "Why is it so?" The Master said, "I only see it as laughable; I do not know why it is so."