續傳燈錄 21.6

21.6

安吉州上方日益禪師。開堂日上首白槌罷。師曰。白槌前觀一又不成。白槌後觀二又不是。到這裏任是銕眼銅睛。也須百雜碎。莫有不避危亡底衲僧。試出來看。時有兩僧齊出。師曰。一箭落雙鵰。僧曰。某甲話猶未問何得著忙。師曰。莫是新羅僧麼。僧擬議。師曰。撞露柱漢便打。問如何是未出世邊事。師曰。井底蝦蟇吞却月。曰如何是出世邊事。師曰。鷺鷥踏折枯蘆枝。曰去此二途如何是和尚為人處。師曰。十成好箇金剛鑽。攤向街頭賣與誰。問如何是多年水牯牛。師曰。齒疎眼暗。問鬧市相逢事若何。師曰。東行買賤西行買貴。曰忽若不作貴不作賤又作麼生。師曰。鎮州蘿蔔。問一切含靈具有佛性。既有佛性為甚麼却撞入驢胎馬腹。師曰。知而故犯。曰未審向甚麼處懺悔。師打曰且作死馬醫。問覿面相呈時如何。師曰。左眼半斤右眼八兩。僧提起坐具曰。這箇聻。師曰。不勞拈出。乃左右顧視曰。黃面老周行七步。脚根下正好一錐。碧眼胡兀坐九年。頂門上可惜一劄。當時若有箇為眾竭力底衲僧。下得這毒手。也免得拈花微笑空破面顏。立雪齊腰翻成轍迹。自此將錯就錯。相簍打簍遂有五葉芬芳千燈續焰。向曲彔木上唱二作三。於楖栗杖頭指南為北。直得進前退後有問法問心之徒。倚門傍牆有覓佛覓祖底漢。庭前指柏。便喚作祖意西來。日裏看山。更錯認學人自己。殊不知此一大事本自靈明。盡未來際未甞間斷。不假修證豈在思惟。雖鶖子有所不知。非滿慈之所能辯。不見馬祖一喝百丈三日耳聾。寶壽令行鎮州。一城眼瞎。大機大用如迅雷不可停。一唱一提似斷崖不可履。正當恁麼時三世諸佛秖可傍觀。六代祖師證明有分。大眾且道。今日還有證明底麼。良久曰。劄。上堂。拾得般柴寒山燒火。唯有豐干巖中冷坐。且道豐干有甚麼長處。良久曰。家無小使不成君子。

Chan Master Shangfang Riyi of Anji Prefecture. On the day he opened the hall, after the senior monk struck the gavel, the master said: "Before the gavel is struck, observing the one is not it. After the gavel is struck, observing the two is not right either. Arriving here, even if one has iron eyes and bronze pupils, they must be smashed into a hundred shards. Is there any patch-robed monk who does not shy away from peril and ruin? Come forward and try!" At that time, two monks came forward together. The master said: "A single arrow brings down a pair of condors." A monk said: "I have not even asked my question; why are you in such a rush?" The master said: "Could you be a monk from Silla?" The monk hesitated. The master said: "A fellow bumping into an exposed pillar!" and struck him. [A monk] asked: "What is the affair before appearing in the world?" The master said: "The frog at the bottom of the well swallows the moon." [The monk] asked: "What is the affair after appearing in the world?" The master said: "The egret snaps the withered reed branch underfoot." [The monk] asked: "Leaving these two paths aside, how does the Venerable guide people?" The master said: "A diamond drill of complete excellence—spread out on the street, to whom can it be sold?" [A monk] asked: "What is the aged water buffalo?" The master said: "Sparse teeth, dim eyes." [A monk] asked: "What happens when meeting in a bustling marketplace?" The master said: "Going east, buy cheap; going west, buy dear." [The monk] said: "What if one makes it neither dear nor cheap?" The master said: "The radishes of Zhenzhou." [A monk] asked: "All sentient beings possess the Buddha-nature. Since they have the Buddha-nature, why do they bump into donkeys' wombs and horses' bellies?" The master said: "Knowing full well, yet deliberately transgressing." [The monk] said: "Where should they repent and reform?" The master struck him and said: "Just treat it as doctoring a dead horse." [A monk] asked: "How is it when meeting face to face?" The master said: "The left eye weighs half a pound; the right eye weighs eight ounces." The monk held up his sitting cloth and said: "What about this?" The master said: "Do not trouble to bring it out." Thereupon looking left and right, he said: "The Yellow-faced Old Man walked seven steps around—right beneath his heels was the perfect place for an awl! The Blue-eyed Barbarian sat stiffly for nine years—what a pity not to have thrust a needle into the crown of his head! Had there been a patch-robed monk at that time who spared no effort for the sake of the assembly and administered this poisonous hand, it would have saved twirling a flower and smiling, vainly cracking a grin; it would have saved standing in the snow up to the waist, turning into rutted tracks. From this point on, they compounded error upon error and colluded with one another, so that there came to be the fragrance of the five petals and the thousand lamps continuing the flame; upon curved wooden chairs they sang two and made three, and at the tip of the hazel staff they pointed south to mean north. This has led right up to folks who advance and retreat asking about Dharma and asking about mind, fellows leaning on doors and clinging to walls seeking the Buddha and seeking the Patriarchs. Pointing to the cypress tree in the courtyard, they call it the Patriarch's meaning in coming from the West; gazing at the mountain in the sunlight, they further mistake it for the student's own self. Little do they know that this one great matter is originally luminous and clear, never interrupted throughout the bounds of the future. It does not rely on cultivation and realization; how could it depend on conceptual thought? Even Śāriputra had that which he did not know; it is not something Pūrṇa Maitrāyaṇīputra could debate. Have you not seen: with one shout from Mazu, Baizhang was deaf for three days; when Baoshou exercised authority, the whole town of Zhenzhou went blind. Great capacity and great function are like swift thunder that cannot be stopped; a single chant and a single discourse are like a sheer cliff that cannot be trodden. Just at such a moment, the Buddhas of the three periods can only stand by and watch; the six generations of Patriarchs have their share of bearing witness. Assembly, tell me: is there anyone today who bears witness?" After a long pause, he said: "Pierced!" Ascending the hall: "Shide gathers firewood, Hanshan lights the fire; only Fenggan sits coldly in the rock cave. Tell me, what special virtue does Fenggan have?" After a long pause, he said: "Without servants at home, one cannot make a gentleman."