續傳燈錄 19.23

19.23

湖州天聖齊月禪師。僧問。如何是祖師西來意。師曰。胡地冬生笋。云乞師再指。師曰。波斯不繫腰。云三十年後專為流通。師曰。西來意作麼生。僧拊掌一下。師曰。早是亂統。僧禮拜師便打。問師唱誰家曲。宗風嗣阿誰。師曰。魚行水濁。云恁麼則淨慈一箭直射翠峯也。師曰。卦是天門算來五兆。云驗人端的處。下口便知。音師曰。一任摸索。乃曰。祖師心印迥脫根塵。妙體非形徒然測度。若乃心存知解識滯見𥹢。祖師徽猷如何得到。今日直須一念情盡內外見亡。大智圓明方能洞曉。便乃隨機應用好醜齊觀。觸處皆渠更無別理。山河舉唱孰是知音。水鳥談真何人善聽。然雖如是。知者方知。更若心眼未開。切忌承虛接響。以拄杖卓一下。

Chan Master Qiyue of Tiansheng in Huzhou. A monk asked, "What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The Master said, "In the barbarian lands, bamboo shoots sprout in winter." The monk said, "I beg the Master to point again." The Master said, "The Persian does not tie his sash." The monk said, "Thirty years later, I will circulate this exclusively." The Master said, "What is the meaning of coming from the West?" The monk clapped his hands once. The Master said, "Already a total mess!" The monk bowed, and the Master struck him. The monk asked, "Whose song does the Master sing? Whose ancestral lineage do you inherit?" The Master said, "When fish swim, the water turns turbid." The monk said, "If so, then Jingci's single arrow shoots straight at Cuiwei Peak." The Master said, "The hexagram is the Gate of Heaven; by calculation, there are five omens." The monk said, "To examine a person's authenticity, one knows the tone as soon as they open their mouth." The Master said, "Feel around all you like." He then said, "The Patriarch's mind seal is far beyond sense faculties and sense dust. The wondrous body is not form; it is in vain to surmise it. If the mind retains intellectual understanding and consciousness is mired in views, how could one reach the Patriarch's glorious model? Today, you must thoroughly exhaust thoughts in a single thought, with internal and external views extinguished. Only when great wisdom is fully bright can you penetrate it clearly. Then you will respond to occasions and apply functions, seeing good and ugly as equal. Everywhere is He; there is no other principle. When mountains and rivers proclaim it, who is the intimate knower? When waterbirds speak of reality, who is good at listening? Even though it is like this, only those who know it will know. If your mind's eye is not yet opened, take care never to lay hold of emptiness and grasp at echoes." He tapped his staff once.