續傳燈錄 33.9

33.9

婺州雙林德用禪師。本郡戴氏子。上堂。拈槌竪拂。祖師門下將黃葉以止啼。說妙談玄。衲僧面前望梅林而止渴。際山今日去却之乎者也。更不指東畫西。向三世諸佛命脈中六代祖師骨髓裏。盡情傾倒為諸人說破。良久曰。啼得血流無用處。不如緘口過殘春。

Chan Master Deyong of Shuanglin in Wuzhou was a native of the Dai family in the same commandery. He ascended the hall: 'Wielding the mallet and erecting the whisk—in the ancestral teachers' gate these are taking yellow leaves to stop a child's crying. Explaining the wondrous and discoursing on the abstruse—before patch-robed monks these are gazing at a plum grove to quench thirst. Today, Jishan will discard all the literary flourishes and will no longer point east and gesture west. Right into the life-vein of all Buddhas of the three times and the bone marrow of the six generations of ancestral teachers, I shall pour out everything without reserve and lay it bare for all of you.' After a long pause he said, 'Crying until blood flows is of no use; / Better to keep the mouth shut and let late spring pass.'