續傳燈錄 17.43

17.43

杭州慶善院普能禪師。本郡呂氏子。上堂。事不獲已與諸人葛藤。一切眾生秖為心塵未脫情量不除。見色聞聲隨波逐浪。流轉三界汩沒四生。致使正見不明觸途成滯。若也是非齊泯善惡都忘。坐斷報化佛頭。截却聖凡途路。到這裏方有少許相應。直饒如是衲僧分上未為奇特。何故如此。纔有是非紛然失心咄。上堂拈拄杖曰。未入山僧手中萬法宛然。既入山僧手中復有何事。良久曰。有意氣時添意氣。不風流處也風流。卓拄杖一下。

Chan Master Puneng of Qingshan Cloister in Hangzhou was a son of the Lü family of the same commandery. Ascending the hall, [he said], "Having no alternative, I tangle vines with you all. All sentient beings, merely because the mind-dust is not cast off and emotional calculations are not eliminated, seeing forms and hearing sounds, follow the waves and chase the billows, transmigrating through the three realms and sinking in the four modes of birth, causing right view to be obscure and encountering obstruction wherever they go. If right and wrong are both eliminated and good and evil are utterly forgotten, sitting through the heads of the reward and transformation Buddhas and cutting off the paths of sages and worldlings, only upon reaching here is there a little accord. Even if it is thus, on the part of a patch-robed monk it is not yet extraordinary. Why is it so? As soon as right and wrong arise, the mind is confusedly lost! Bah!" Ascending the hall, he took up his staff and said, "Before entering the mountain monk's hand, the myriad phenomena were just as they were; having entered the mountain monk's hand, what matter is there again?" After a long pause, he said, "When there is high spirit, add high spirit; / Where there is no charm, there is also charm." He struck his staff once.