續傳燈錄 23.43

23.43

南嶽雲峯景德慧昌禪師。僧問。高提祖印即不問。覿面相呈事若何。師曰。不勞拈出。僧云。不因漁父引爭得見波濤。師曰。酌然。僧云。言前道破無妨礙。物外全提有像遷。師曰獨許闍梨。僧云。橫身三界外誰是出頭人。師曰。爭不足讓有餘。僧云。學人東西不辨南北不分。師曰。自生退屈。乃曰。禹溪流水如藍染。雲密峯巒畫不成。山色水聲全是體。不知誰解悟無生。悟無生彼此自忘情。更擬求奇妙。笑殺嶺南能。又曰。非不非是不是。達磨西來惑眾顯異。梁王勘破渡江入魏。九年面壁向嵩丘。接得神光轉失利。大眾欲不失利麼。廉纖梅雨蔽千家。蕭灑薰風吹萬類。若作佛法商量。墮在野狐群裏。又曰。至道無難唯嫌揀擇。但莫憎愛洞然明白。雪峯輥毬趙州庭柏。不落見聞亦非聲色。擬問如何攔顋一摑。又曰。佛祖傳心西天此土。得之者如日如月照耀乾坤。失之者如盲如聾不辨西東。雲峯這裏得失是非一時放却。無禪可參。無道可學。猖猖狂狂蹈乎大方。且道佛祖傳心傳箇什麼。良久曰。窓開雲霧生衣上。簾捲山泉入鏡中。

Chan Master Huichang of Jingde on Mount Nanyue Yunfeng. A monk asked, "Holding high the ancestral seal is not my question; how is it when presenting it face to face?" The Master said, "Do not trouble yourself to bring it forth." The monk said, "Without the fisherman's guide, how could one see the waves?" The Master said, "Evidently." The monk said, "Speaking of it before words poses no hindrance; fully presenting it beyond things changes form." The Master said, "I allow only you, Ācārya, [to say so]." The monk said, "Stepping across beyond the three realms, who is the one sticking his head out?" The Master said, "Struggling leaves a deficit; yielding leaves a surplus." The monk said, "This student cannot distinguish east from west, nor tell north from south." The Master said, "You are giving rise to withdrawal and hesitation yourself." He then said, "The flowing waters of Yu Brook are as if dyed indigo; / The cloud-dense peaks and ranges cannot be painted. / Mountain colours and water sounds are entirely the substance; / Who understands how to awaken to the unborn? / Awakening to the unborn, one spontaneously forgets sentiment toward both this and that; / If you further intend to seek wonder and subtlety, / You would laugh Huineng of Lingnan to death." He also said, "Neither is it wrong, nor is it right. Bodhidharma's coming from the West deluded the multitude and displayed aberrations; after the King of Liang saw through him, he crossed the river into Wei. Facing the hills of Song for nine years of wall-gazing, when he took in Shenguang, he turned around and suffered a loss. Assembly, do you wish not to suffer a loss? Fine drizzling plum rains shelter a thousand houses; brisk and cool balmy breezes blow upon the ten thousand kinds. If you treat this as an analysis of the Buddha Dharma, you will fall into a pack of wild foxes." He also said, "'The Supreme Way is not difficult; it merely dislikes picking and choosing. Only without hatred and love is it thoroughly clear.' Xuefeng rolling balls, Zhaozhou's cypress in the courtyard—neither falling into seeing and hearing, nor belonging to sound and form. Intending to ask how? A slap across the cheek!" He also said, "The Buddhas and Patriarchs transmitted mind in the Western Heavens and this land. Those who attain it are like the sun and the moon, illuminating heaven and earth; those who lose it are like the blind and the deaf, unable to distinguish west from east. Here at Yunfeng, gain and loss, right and wrong, are all cast away at once. There is no Chan to investigate, no Way to study. Unrestrained and free, one steps onto the Great Square. And tell me, what did the Buddhas and Patriarchs transmit when they transmitted mind?" After a good while, he said, "The window opens: clouds and mist arise upon one's robe; / The screen is rolled up: the mountain spring enters into the mirror."