續傳燈錄 6.12

6.12

越州雲門山靈運寶印禪師。上堂。夜來雲雨散長空。月在森羅萬象中。萬象靈光無內外。當明一句若為通。不見。僧問大哥和尚云。月生雲際時如何。大哥曰。三箇孩兒抱花鼓。莫來攔我毬門路。月生雲際。是明甚麼邊事。三箇孩兒抱花鼓。擬思即隔。莫來攔我毬門路。須有出身處始得。若無出身處也似黑牛臥死水。出身一句作麼生道。不勞久立。

Chan Master Lingyun Baoyin of Mount Yunmen in Yuezhou ascended the hall: 'Last night clouds and rain scattered into the vast sky; / The moon is amidst the myriad phenomena. / The numinous light of the myriad phenomena has neither inside nor outside; / When this is understood, how does a single phrase penetrate?' Have you not seen? A monk asked Upādhyāya Dage, 'How is it when the moon rises from the clouds?' Dage said, 'Three children embrace flower drums; / Do not come to block my way to the ball goal.' 'The moon rises from the clouds'—what side of the matter does this clarify? 'Three children embrace flower drums'—if you try to think, you are separated from it. 'Do not come to block my way to the ball goal'—one must have a place to emerge before one gets it. If there is no place to emerge, one is like a black cow lying in stagnant water. How do you speak a phrase of emerging? Do not trouble yourselves to stand for long.