續傳燈錄 32.28

32.28

建寧府竺原宗元菴主。本郡連氏子。久依大慧分座西禪。丞相張公浚帥三山以數院迎之不就。歸舊里結茅號眾妙園。宿衲士夫交請開法示眾曰。若究此事如失却鎖匙相似。秖管尋來尋去。忽然撞著。噁在這裏。開箇鎖了便見自家庫藏。一切受用無不具足。不假他求別有甚麼事。示眾曰。諸方為人抽釘拔楔解粘去縛。我這裏為人添釘著楔加繩加縛了。送向深潭裏。待他自去理會。示眾曰。主法之人氣吞宇宙為大法王。若是釋迦老子達磨大師出來。也教伊叉手向我背後立地。直得寒毛卓竪。亦未為分外。一日舉。世尊生下一手指天一手指地云。天上天下惟吾獨尊。師乃曰。見怪不怪其怪自壞。垂語云。這一些子恰如撞著殺人漢相似。爾若不殺了他。他便殺了爾。近禮侍者三山人。久侍大慧。嘗默究竹篦話無所入。一日入室罷求指示。慧曰。爾是福州人。我說箇喻向爾。如將名品茘枝和皮殼一時剝了。以手送在爾口裏。秖是爾不解吞。師不覺失笑曰。和尚吞却即禍事。慧後問師曰。前日吞了底茘枝。秖是爾不知滋味。師曰。若知滋味轉見禍事。

Hermitage Master Zhuyuan Zongyuan of Jianning Prefecture was a son of the Lian family of that prefecture. He relied on Dahui for a long time and shared the seat at Xishan. Grand Councillor Lord Zhang Jun, military commissioner of Sanshan, invited him with several monasteries, but he did not accept. Returning to his old village, he thatched a hut named Garden of Myriad Wonders. Veteran monks and scholar-officials repeatedly requested him to open the Dharma hall. Instructing the assembly, he said: “Investigating this matter is like having lost a key: you just search and search, and suddenly you bump into it—‘Aha, it's here!’ Opening the lock, you then see your own storehouse, where all uses are completely provided, without relying on external seeking. What other business could there be?”

Instructing the assembly, he said: “Everywhere they pull out nails and extract pegs, dissolve sticking and untie bonds for people. Here, I add nails and drive pegs, add ropes and add bindings for people, and send them into a deep pool, waiting for them to attend to it themselves.”

Instructing the assembly, he said: “The person who masters the Dharma swallows the universe in one breath, acting as a great Dharma king. Even if Old Man Śākya and Great Master Bodhidharma came out, I would have them fold their hands and stand behind my back, making their cold hairs stand on end, and even that would not be out of bounds.”

One day, he brought up: “When the World-Honored One was born, pointing one finger to heaven and one finger to earth, he said: ‘In the heavens above and beneath the heavens, I alone am the honored one.’” The Master then said: “Seeing the uncanny and not being amazed, the uncanny destroys itself.”

Giving a directive word, he said: “This bit is just like running into a murderous fellow: if you do not kill him, he will kill you.”

Attendant Jinli was a native of Sanshan. Having served Dahui for a long time, he once silently investigated the bamboo comb gong'an without any entrance. One day, after entering the abbot's room, he sought instruction. Hui said: “You are a native of Fuzhou. I will give you a metaphor: it is like taking a choice lychee, peeling off the skin and shell all at once, and feeding it into your mouth by hand; it is only that you do not know how to swallow.”

The Master could not help laughing and said: “Upādhyāya, if I swallowed it, that would be a disaster!”

Hui later asked the Master: “The lychee you swallowed the other day—it's just that you don't know the flavor.”

The Master said: “If I knew the flavor, the disaster would be all the worse.”