續傳燈錄 21.39

21.39

潭州大溈祖瑃禪師。福州吳氏子。僧問。如何是溈山家風。師曰。竹有上下節。松無今古青。曰未審其中飲噉何物。師曰。飢餐相公玉粒飯。渴點神運倉前茶。上堂。道無定亂法離見知。言句相投都無定義。自古龍門無宿客。至今鳥道絕行蹤。欲會箇中端的意。火裏蝍蟟吞大虫。咄。上堂。雨下階頭濕。晴乾水不流。鳥巢滄海底。魚躍石山頭。眾中大有商量。前頭兩句是平實語。後頭兩句是格外談。若如是會。秖見石磊磊。不見玉落落。若見玉落落。方知道寬寬。咦。

Chan Master Dagui Zuchun of Tanzhou was a son of the Wu family of Fuzhou. A monk asked, 'What is the house style of Guishan?' The master said, 'Bamboo has upper and lower nodes; pine is green neither now nor anciently.' The monk said, 'I wonder what is eaten and drunk in it?' The master said, 'When hungry, dining on the Minister's jade-grain rice; when thirsty, drinking tea before the Divinely Transported Granary.' He ascended the hall: 'The Dao has no settling or disturbance; phenomena are free from seeing and knowing. When words and phrases correspond, they have no fixed meaning at all. Since antiquity, the Dragon Gate has lodged no overnight guests; down to the present day, the bird's path is devoid of tracks. If you wish to understand the exact meaning within this: in the fire, a cicada swallows a tiger. Bah!' He ascended the hall: 'When rain falls, the steps are wet; when clear and dry, water does not flow. Birds nest at the bottom of the blue ocean; fish leap atop the stone mountain. There is much deliberation among the assembly: the first two lines are ordinary, straightforward words; the last two lines are extraordinary talk outside the patterns. If you understand it in this way, you only see the pile of stones, but do not see the scattered jades. If you see the scattered jades, only then will you know that the Dao is vast and broad. Yi!'