續傳燈錄 24.16

24.16

鄧州香嚴倚松如璧禪師。撫州饒氏子。上堂。變化密移何太急。剎那念念一呼吸。八萬四千方便門。且道何門不可入。入不入曉來雨打芭蕉濕。殷勤更問箇中人。門外堂堂相對立。聞啄木鳥鳴說偈曰。剝剝剝裏面有虫外面啄。多少茫茫瞌睡人。頂後一錐猶未覺。若不覺更聽山僧剝剝剝。

Chan Master Xiangyan Yisong Rubi of Dengzhou was a son of the Rao family of Fuzhou. He ascended the hall: "How excessively rushed is the subtle shift of change and transformation! A kṣaṇa, thought to thought, a single breath. Among the eighty-four thousand expedient gates, tell me, which gate can one not enter? Entering or not entering, at dawn the rain beats down and wets the plantains. Earnestly I further ask the person within: outside the door, they stand boldly facing one another." Hearing the cry of a woodpecker, he spoke a verse: "'Tock, tock, tock! / Inside there are grubs, outside it pecks. / How many vast crowds of drowsy people— / even a punch behind the crown of the head does not awaken them! / If you do not awaken, listen again to this mountain monk: / Tock, tock, tock!'"