續傳燈錄 18.46

18.46

臨安府廣福院惟尚禪師。初參覺印問曰。南泉斬猫兒意旨如何。印曰。須是南泉始得。印以前語詰之。師不能對。至僧堂忽大悟曰。古人道。從今日去更不疑天下老和尚舌頭。信有之矣。述偈呈印曰。須是南泉第一機。不知不覺驀頭錐。覿面若無青白眼。還如𮭗𮭗守空池。舉未絕印竪拳曰。正當恁麼時作麼生。師掀倒禪床。印遂喝。師曰。賊過後張弓。便出住廣福日室中問僧。提起來作麼生會。又曰。且道是箇甚麼要人提起。

Chan Master Weishang of Guangfu Cloister in Lin'an Prefecture initially visited Jueyin and asked, "What was the intention of Nanquan cutting the cat?" Yin said, "You must be Nanquan before you can do it." Yin questioned him with the previous words, and the master could not answer. Arriving at the monks' hall, he suddenly experienced great awakening and said, "The ancients said: 'From this day forward I no longer doubt the tongues of the venerable old teachers of the world.' Truly it is so!" He composed a verse and presented it to Yin: 'It must be Nanquan's primary mechanism; / Unwittingly, unawares, struck abruptly on the head. / Face to face, if one lacks blue-and-white eyes, / One is still like an otter guarding an empty pool.' Before he finished citing it, Yin raised his fist and said, "Right at such a time, how is it?" The master overturned the meditation couch. Yin then shouted. The master said, "Drawing the bow after the thief has passed!" When he went out to dwell at Guangfu, in the room he asked a monk, "Holding it up, how do you comprehend it?" He also said, "Tell me, what is it that requires someone to hold it up?"