景德傳燈錄 28.5

28.5

澧州藥山惟儼和尚上堂曰。祖師只教保護。若貪瞋起來切須防禦。莫教揨（直庚切）觸是爾欲知枯木石頭却須擔荷。實無枝葉可得。雖然如此更宜自看不得絕却言語。我今為汝說遮箇語顯無語底。他那箇本來無耳目等貌。時有僧問云。何有六趣。師曰。我此要輪雖在其中元來不染。問不了身中煩惱時如何。師曰。煩惱作何相狀。我且要爾考看。更有一般底。只向紙背上記持言語。多被經論惑。我不曾看經論策子。汝只為迷事走失自家不定。所以便有生死心。未學得一言半句一經一論。便說恁麼菩提涅槃世攝不攝。若如是解即是生死。若不被此得失繫縛。便無生死。汝見律師說什麼。尼薩耆突吉羅最是生死本。雖然恁麼。窮生死且不可得。上至諸佛下至螻蟻。盡有此長短好惡大小不同。若也不從外來。何處有閑漢掘地獄待爾。爾欲識地獄道。只今鑊湯煎煮者是。欲識餓鬼道。即今多虛少實不令人信者是。欲識畜生道。見今不識仁義不辨親疎者是。豈須披毛戴角斬割倒懸。欲識人天。即今洗淨威儀持瓶挈鉢者是。保任免墮諸趣。第一不得棄遮箇。遮箇不是易得。須向高高山頂立深深海底行。此處行不易。方有少相應。如今出頭來。盡是多事人。覓箇癡鈍人不可得。莫只記策子中言語以為自己見知。見他不解者便生輕慢。此輩盡是闡提外道。此心直不中切須審悉。恁麼道猶是三界邊事。莫在衲衣下空過。到遮裏更微細在。莫將等閑。須知珍重。

Upādhyāya Weiyan of Yaoshan in Lizhou entered the hall and said: "The ancestral masters taught only protection. If greed and anger arise, you must be extremely vigilant to guard against them; do not let them touch you. If you wish to know withered wood and cold stones, you must take it upon yourself. Truly, there are no branches or leaves to be had. Even though it is like this, you should look into it yourself; you must not completely cut off speech. I am now speaking these words for you to manifest that which is without speech. That one originally has no features such as ears and eyes." At that time, a monk asked, "Why are there the six destinies?" The master said, "Although I am within this vital wheel, I am originally untainted." [The monk] asked, "When one does not understand the afflictions within one's body, what then?" The master said, "What appearance do afflictions have? I want you to examine it for a while." "There is another sort who merely remember words on the backs of paper; they are mostly deluded by sūtras and treatises. I have never read sūtra or treatise booklets. You are only deluded by phenomena, losing yourself and remaining unsettled; therefore, you have a mind of birth and death. Before you have even learned half a phrase, a single sūtra, or a single treatise, you talk like this about whether bodhi and nirvāṇa are subsumed in the worldly or not. If you understand like this, that is birth and death. If you are not bound by these gains and losses, then there is no birth and death. What do you see Vinaya masters talking about? Niḥsargika and duṣkṛta are the very roots of birth and death. Even so, examining birth and death, they cannot be found. From the Buddhas above down to ants below, all have these differences of long and short, good and bad, large and small. If they do not come from the outside, where is there an idle fellow digging a hell to wait for you? If you wish to know the destiny of hell, it is precisely those who are right now boiling and simmering in cauldrons of soup. If you wish to know the destiny of hungry ghosts, it is precisely those who right now are mostly false and seldom true, not causing people to trust them. If you wish to know the destiny of animals, it is precisely those who presently do not know benevolence and righteousness, and do not distinguish between kin and stranger. How could it require being clad in fur, wearing horns, or being butchered and hung upside down? If you wish to know humans and devas, it is precisely those who right now wash cleanly, maintain dignified deportment, and hold the water pitcher and carry the alms bowl. Protect it to avoid falling into the various destinies. Above all, you must not abandon this. This is not easy to obtain. You must stand on the highest mountain peak and walk on the deepest ocean floor. Walking in this place is not easy; only then will there be a little accord. Nowadays, those who come forward are all busybodies; one cannot find a single dull-witted person. Do not merely remember words in booklets and take them to be your own views and knowledge. Seeing that others do not understand, you immediately give rise to arrogance and contempt. People of this sort are all icchantikas and non-Buddhists. This mind is directly unserviceable; you must be extremely discerning. Speaking like this still belongs to the side of the three realms. Do not pass your time in vain under the patch-robe. When reaching this place, it is even more subtle. Do not treat it as ordinary. You should take care."