續傳燈錄 23.58

23.58

潭州大溈大圓智禪師。四明人也。上堂舉。南泉道。三世諸佛不知有。狸奴白牯却知有。師曰。三世諸佛既不知有。狸奴白牯又何曾夢見灼然。須知向上有知有底人始得。且作麼生是知有底人。喫官酒臥官街。當處死當處埋。沙場無限英靈漢。堆山積嶽露屍骸。

Chan Master Dayuan Zhi of Dagui in Tanzhou was a person from Siming. Ascending the hall, he cited: "Nanquan said, 'The Buddhas of the three times do not know it exists; wildcats and white oxen do know it exists.'" The Master said, "Since the Buddhas of the three times do not know it exists, how could wildcats and white oxen have even dreamed of it? Clearly, one must know that there are people above who know it exists before one can attain it. And what is a person who knows it exists? Drinking government wine, lying in the government street; / Dying right where one is, buried right where one is. / Boundless heroic and valiant men on the battlefield, / Piled up like mountains and hills, exposing their corpses."