景德傳燈錄 22.57

22.57

Upādhyāya Zifu of Shaozhou. A monk asked, "Not asking about the ancestral vehicle, I ask the master for the mind-seal." The Master said, "I do not answer such words." [The monk] said, "Why do you not answer?" The Master said, "It does not accord with the previous words." [The monk] asked: "Where face-to-face encounters are hard to meet, / How does one watch over danger and ease? / I beg the master to bestow half a verse, / To spare later people from doubt." The Master said: "The single phrase before the point surpasses the Tamer; / If you try to ask how it is, you diverge for kalpas on end." [The monk] said, "If so, then people of the time know of the eastern mountain and western ridge; who has custody of the wind and moon before Zifu's courtyard?" The Master said, "Understand the previous words."