續傳燈錄 24.41

24.41

明州瑞岩石窓法恭禪師。郡之奉化林氏子。於棲真院下髮受具。往延慶講下。一夕誦法華至父母所生眼悉見三千界。時聞風刺椶櫚葉聲忽然有省。棄依天童始明大旨。凡當世弘法者悉往咨決。出住能仁光孝瑞岩。上堂。春風楊柳眉。春禽弄百舌。一片祖師心。兩處俱漏泄。不動步還家。習漏頓消滅。暗投玉線芒。曉貫金針穴。深固實幽遠。無人孰辯別。慚愧可憐生。頭頭皆合轍。不念阿彌陀。南無乾屎橛。無智癡人前。第一不得說。上堂。見得徹用時親。相逢盡是箇中人。望空雨寶休誇富。無地容錐未是貧。踏著秤鎚硬似鐵。八兩元來是半斤。上堂舉世尊生下指天指地公案。頌曰。五天一隻蓬蒿箭。攪動支那百萬兵。不得雲門行正令。幾乎錯認定盤星。

Chan Master Shichuang Fagong of Ruiyan in Mingzhou was a native of Fenghua in the same prefecture, surnamed Lin. He shaved his head and received full ordination at Qizhen Cloister. He went to Yanqing to attend lectures. One evening, reciting the Lotus Sūtra up to the line, 'With the eyes born of one's father and mother, one completely sees the three-thousandfold world,' he heard the wind rustling palm leaves and suddenly had an awakening. Leaving the lectures, he relied on Tiantong, where he first understood the great purpose. He then went to inquire and resolve doubts with all those who propagated the Dharma in his day. He became abbot at Nengren, Guangxiao, and Ruiyan. He ascended the hall and said, 'The spring wind: the willows' eyebrows; spring birds mimic a hundred tongues. A single piece of the Patriarch's mind is leaked out in both places. Without taking a step, one returns home, and habitual defilements are suddenly extinguished. In darkness, the tip of the jade thread is cast; at dawn, it threads the eye of the golden needle. Deep, firm, and truly profound and remote: without a person, who can discern it? Ashamed, how pitiable! At every point, all accords with the track. Do not recite Amitābha; take refuge in the dry piece of shit! Before foolish people without wisdom, on no account should this be spoken.' He ascended the hall and said, 'Seeing through thoroughly, in its functioning it is intimate. Everyone one meets is an insider. Looking to empty space and showering treasures—cease boasting of wealth; having no ground to stick an awl is not yet poverty. Treading on a steelyard weight, it is hard as iron: eight ounces was originally half a catty.' He ascended the hall and cited the gong'an of the Bhagavat pointing to heaven and pointing to earth at birth, presenting a verse: 'Throughout the five Indias, a single weed arrow / Stirred up a million soldiers in China. / Without Yunmen enforcing the authentic order, / One would have almost mistaken the fixed star on the steelyard.'