續傳燈錄 32.19

32.19

溫州雁山能仁枯木祖元禪師。七閩林氏子。初謁雪峯預次依佛心才。皆已機契。及依大慧於雲門菴。夜坐次覩僧剔燈始徹證。有偈曰。剔起燈來是火。歷劫無明照破。歸堂撞見聖僧。幾乎當面蹉過。不蹉過是甚麼。十五年前奇特。依前秖是這箇。慧以偈贈之曰。萬仞崖頭解放身。起來依舊却惺惺。饑餐渴飲渾無事。那論昔人非昔人。紹興乙巳春出住能仁。上堂。有佛處不得住。踏著秤鎚硬似鐵。無佛處急走過。脚下草深三尺。三千里外逢人不得錯舉。北斗挂須彌。恁麼則不去也。棒頭挑日月。摘楊花摘楊花。眼裏瞳人著繡鞋。卓拄杖下座。上堂。雁山枯木實頭禪。不在尖新語句邊。背手忽然摸得著。長鯨吞月浪滔天。

Chan Master Kumu Zuyuan of Nengren on Mount Yan in Wenzhou was a son of the Lin family in Qimin. At first he called upon Xuefeng Yu, and next he relied on Foxin Cai; with both, the dynamic matched. When he came to rely on Dahui at Yunmen Hermitage, while sitting at night, seeing a monk trim a lamp, he first thoroughly verified it. He had a verse that said:

“Trimming up the lamp, it is fire;
Beginningless ignorance is illuminated and broken through.
Returning to the hall, I bumped into the holy monk—
I almost missed him to his face!
If not missing him, what is it?
Fifteen years ago it was extraordinary;
Just as before, it is only this.”

Dahui presented him with a verse that said:

“At the crest of a ten-thousand-fathom cliff, he lets go of his body;
Standing back up, just as before, he is wide awake.
Eating when hungry, drinking when thirsty—completely without concern;
Why debate whether the past man is not the past man?”

In the spring of the yisi year of Shaoxing, he came forth to reside at Nengren. Ascending the hall, he said: “Where there is a Buddha, you must not stay; treading on a steelyard weight, it is hard as iron. Where there is no Buddha, run quickly past; beneath your feet the grass is three feet deep. Meeting someone three thousand miles away, you must not bring it up wrongly; the Northern Dipper hangs on Sumeru. If so, then do not go; on the tip of a staff carry the sun and moon. Pick willow blossoms! Pick willow blossoms! The pupils in your eyes are wearing embroidered shoes!” Striking with his staff, he stepped down from his seat.

Ascending the hall, he said: “Yan Mountain's withered-tree solid-headed Chan is not beside sharp and novel phrases. Suddenly touching it with a backhand, the great whale swallows the moon, waves surging to the heavens.”