續傳燈錄 23.46

23.46

俞道婆金陵人也。市油餈為業。常隨眾參問琅邪。邪以臨濟無位真人話示之。一日聞丐者唱蓮花樂云。不因柳毅傳書信。何緣得到洞庭湖。忽大悟以餈盤投地。夫傍睨曰。爾顛邪。婆掌曰。非汝境界。往見琅邪。邪望之知其造詣。問那箇是無位真人。婆應聲曰。有一無位人。六臂三頭努力嗔。一擘華山分兩路。萬年流水不知春。由是聲名藹著。凡有僧至則曰。兒兒。僧擬議即掩門。佛燈珣禪師往勘之。婆見如前所問。珣曰。爺在甚麼處。婆轉身拜露柱。珣即踏倒曰將謂有多少奇特。便出婆蹶起曰。兒兒來惜爾則箇。珣竟不顧。安首座至。婆問甚處來。安曰。德山。婆曰德山太乃老婆兒子。安曰。婆是甚人兒子。婆曰。被上座一問。直得立地放尿。婆嘗頌馬祖不安因緣曰。日面月面虛空閃電。雖然截斷天下衲僧舌頭。分明秖道得一半。

Old Woman Yu was a person from Jinling. She made a living by selling fried rice cakes in the market. She regularly followed the congregation to attend and question Langye. Langye instructed her with Linji's gong'an of the 'True Person of No Rank'. One day, she heard a beggar singing the Lianhua Yue, which went: 'Were it not for Liu Yi delivering the letter, / How could one have reached Lake Dongting?' Suddenly experiencing a great awakening, she threw her rice-cake platter onto the ground. Her husband glanced at her from the side and said, 'Are you mad?' The old woman slapped him and said, 'This is not your realm.' She went to see Langye. Langye saw her from afar and knew her attainment. He asked, 'Which is the True Person of No Rank?' The old woman answered immediately: 'There is a person of no rank, / With six arms and three heads, exerting wrath. / Cleaving Mount Hua with one blow, it splits into two paths; / The ten-thousand-year flowing water knows no spring.' From then on, her fame spread widely. Whenever a monk arrived, she would say, 'My boy, my boy!' If the monk hesitated, she would shut the door. Chan Master Fodeng Xun went to test her. Seeing him, the old woman asked as before. Xun said, 'Where is your father?' The old woman turned her body and bowed to the exposed pillar. Xun promptly kicked her over, saying, 'And here I thought you had something extraordinary!' As he walked out, the old woman scrambled up and said, 'My boy, my boy, come here and let me cherish you!' Xun never looked back. Head Monk An arrived. The old woman asked, 'Where have you come from?' An said, 'Deshan.' The old woman said, 'Deshan is so very much this old woman's son.' An said, 'Whose son is this old woman?' The old woman said, 'Being questioned by the head monk like this, I was made to stand right here and piss.' The old woman once made a verse on Mazu's illness, saying: 'Sun-Face, Moon-Face, lightning in the sky. / Although it cut off the tongues of patch-robed monks throughout the world, / Clearly, it only expressed half of it.'