續傳燈錄 13.46

13.46

潭州興化紹清禪師。僧問。不觸波瀾如何趨向師曰。得宜須舉棹莫待打頭風。僧云。猶是湛水之波。忽遇拏雲攫霧又且如何。師曰。道泰不傳天子令。師乃曰。問來答去秖益繁詞。於道則遠之遠矣。祖令既行要津坐斷。十方諸佛瓦解氷消。三藏教乘掃土而盡。到這裏誰敢正眼覷著。所以釋迦有竭世之樞機。尚掩室於摩竭。淨名騁窮天之詞辯。猶杜口於毘耶。豈況小根小智。何也。龍象蹴踏非驢所堪。

Chan Master Shaoging of Xinghua in Tanzhou. A monk asked, "Without disturbing the waves, how should one advance?" The master said, "When it is fitting, you must lift the oar; do not wait for a headwind." The monk said, "This is still the waves of still water; if one suddenly encounters grasping clouds and seizing mists, what then?" The master said, "When the Way is exalted, the Son of Heaven's orders are not transmitted." The master then said, "Asking back and forth only increases redundant words; with respect to the Way, it is far, far off. Once the ancestral decree is put into effect, the essential ford is cut off; the Buddhas of the ten directions dissolve like tiles and melt like ice; the teachings and vehicles of the Tripiṭaka are swept away entirely like dirt. Reaching here, who dares gaze at it directly? Therefore, Śākya possessed the hinge and pivot to exhaust the world, yet still closed his room in Magadha; Vimalakīrti commanded eloquence that reached the limits of Heaven, yet still sealed his mouth in Vaiśālī. How much more so for those of inferior faculties and minor wisdom? Why is this? The trampling of dragons and elephants is not what donkeys can bear."