景德傳燈錄 22.9

22.9

福州報國院照禪師。師上堂曰。我若全機汝向什麼處摸索。蓋為根器不等。便成不具慚愧。還委得麼。如今與諸仁者作箇入底門路。乃敲繩床兩下云。還見麼。還聞麼。若見便見。若聞便聞。莫向意識裏卜度。却成妄想顛倒無有出期。珍重。因佛塔被雷霹。有人問。祖佛塔廟為什麼却被雷霹。師曰。通天作用。僧曰。既是通天作用。為什麼却霹佛。師曰。作用何處見有佛。僧曰。爭奈狼藉何。師曰。見什麼。

Chan Master Zhao of Baoguo Cloister in Fuzhou. The Master ascended the hall and said: "If I act with full dynamic functioning, where will you grope for it? Because root capacities are not equal, you immediately end up lacking shame. Do you understand yet? Now, I will make an entry path for all you benevolent ones." He then struck the rope-seat twice and said: "Do you see yet? Do you hear yet? If you see, then see directly; if you hear, then hear directly. Do not calculate within sense-consciousness; that will only turn into delusion and upside-down thought without any time of emergence. Take care!" Once, because a Buddha stupa was struck by lightning, someone asked, "Why was the stupa and temple of the ancestral Buddha struck by lightning?" The Master said, "Action penetrating heaven." The monk said, "Since it is action penetrating heaven, why did it strike the Buddha?" The Master said, "In such action, where does one see any Buddha?" The monk said, "How can one deal with the devastation?" The Master said, "What do you see?"