續傳燈錄 21.14

21.14

舒州白雲海會守縱禪師。僧問。藥山一句人皆委。白雲今日事如何。師曰。逼塞虛空。僧云。誰知今日裏明月鎖舒城。師曰。斫額望扶桑。問曹溪一滴普洽大千。白雲出山如何利物。師曰。雲橫洞口歸鳥迷巢。僧云。指南一路又如何。師曰。鐵蛇當大道通身黑如煙。示眾曰。指呼四聖號令六凡。統三界作大伽藍。以十虛為解脫門戶。山河大地是古佛之心源。爐炭鑊湯乃眾生之覺地。於一微塵上。現恒沙諸佛之全身。於一佛心中。現無邊眾生之世界。若能如是即心無知。全心即佛全佛即人。人佛無異始為道矣。然雖如是。不落化門一句作麼生道。良久曰。九年喫菜粥此事少人知。

Chan Master Shouzhong of Haihui on Mount Baiyun in Shuzhou. A monk asked: "Everyone understands Yaoshan's single phrase. How is it with Baiyun today?" The Master said: "Choking empty space." The monk said: "Who knows that today the bright moon locks Shucheng?" The Master said: "Shading the brow and gazing toward Fusang." A monk asked: "A single drop from Caoxi universally moistens the great chiliocosm. How does Baiyun leaving the mountain benefit beings?" The Master said: "Clouds stretch horizontally across the cave entrance; the returning bird loses its nest." The monk said: "How about the single road to the south?" The Master said: "An iron snake blocks the great avenue, its whole body black as smoke." He instructed the assembly, saying: "Directing the four sages and commanding the six ordinary realms, uniting the three realms into a great saṅghārāma, taking the ten directions of emptiness as the gate of liberation. The mountains, rivers, and the great earth are the mind-source of the ancient buddhas; the fiery furnace and boiling cauldron are the grounds of awakening for sentient beings. Upon a single speck of dust, the whole bodies of buddhas as numerous as the sands of the Ganges appear. Within a single Buddha-mind, the realms of boundless sentient beings appear. If one can be like this, then the mind has no knowledge: the whole mind is just the Buddha, and the whole Buddha is just the person. When person and Buddha are not different, one begins to be in the Way. Even though it is like this, how do you say a phrase that does not fall into pedagogical means?" After a long pause, he said: "For nine years eating vegetable porridge—few people know this matter."