續傳燈錄 16.43

16.43

鎮州永泰智航禪師上堂。散為氣者乃道之漓。適於變者為法之弊。靈機不昧亘古亘今。大用現前何得何失。雖然如是。忽遇無孔鐵鎚作麼生話會。拈拄杖曰。穿過了也。上堂。龍騰碧漢變化無方。鳳翥青霄誰知蹤跡。可行則行。不出百千三昧。可止則止。寧忘萬象森羅。所以道。取不得捨不得。不可得中秖麼得。且道得箇甚麼。良久曰。莫妄想。

Chan Master Zhihang of Yongtai in Zhen Prefecture ascended the hall and said: "Dispersing into qi is the dilution of the Way; adapting to mutations is the corruption of the Dharma. The wondrous mechanism is unobscured, spanning past and spanning present; when the great function appears before us, what gain or what loss is there? Even though it is like this, if you suddenly encounter an iron hammer without a hole, how will you understand it?" Holding up his staff, he said, "Pierced right through!" Ascending the hall, he said: "The dragon soars into the azure vault, changing without limit; the phoenix flutters in the blue sky, who knows its traces? When it is permissible to act, act—not departing from the hundred thousand samādhis; when it is permissible to stop, stop—would one forget the array of ten thousand forms? Therefore it is said: 'It cannot be grasped, it cannot be discarded; within the ungraspable, it is grasped just so.' Tell me, what is grasped?" After a long pause, he said, "Do not have delusive thoughts."