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title: "蓮月禪師語錄 · 小參"
description: "蓮月禪師語錄是清代臨濟宗高僧蓮月禪師的語錄彙編由弟子道正說性容等記錄整理成書該書反映了清初禪宗的風貌與思想內涵內容包括蓮月禪師的上堂法語小參拈古頌古等機鋒語錄以及書信問答集中體現了其直指人心見性成佛的禪學思想與實踐路徑是研究清代禪宗特別是臨濟宗發展與演變的重要文獻對於理解明清時期佛教禪宗的脈絡與特色具有較高的歷史與學術價值在佛教典籍中佔有一席之地"
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### 小參

> Individual Instruction

小參。僧問：「佛未出世、祖未西來，者箇消息在什麼處？」師云：「逼塞滿虛空。」進云：「作麼生搆取？」師云：「築著磕著。」乃云：「拈華微笑，刺腦入膠盆；斷臂安心，泥裏洗土塊。更若棒喝交馳、主賓互換，言論往來、閒門破戶，總是無計較中成計較、無途轍中成途轍。不見道：『三世諸佛、法界眾生盡是摩訶般若光。』光未發時尚無佛、無眾生消息，正當恁麼時如何委悉？」乃以拄杖畫此⊕，云：「一把綠絲收不得，和風搭在玉欄干。」

> Small Assembly. A monk asked, “Before the Buddha appeared in the world, before the patriarch came west, where is this message?” The master said, “It fills the entire empty space.” The monk said, “How do we grasp it?” The master said, “Run into it, bump into it.” He then said: “Offering a flower and smiling—stabbing your head into a glue pot. Cutting off an arm to find peace—washing mud in dirt. Even more, if you race with shouts and blows, exchange host and guest, or go back and forth with words and arguments—all these leave the gate wide open and break down the door. They always create plans where there was no plan, create paths where there was no path. Don’t you know the saying: ‘All Buddhas of the three times and all beings of the dharma realm are entirely the light of Mahāprajñā’? Before the light shines, there is not a trace of a Buddha nor a trace of a being. At just such a moment, how do you know it?” He then drew this figure ⊕ with his staff and said: “A handful of green silk cannot be gathered— with the gentle breeze, it drapes over the jade railing.”

法顯趙居士生辰，請小參。師云：「父母非所親，誰是最親者？」喝一喝，云：「穿過髑髏時，全身已露也。大眾！還識此人麼？此人寒暑不能遷、生死不能移，能促一劫為一日、能延一日為一劫，改禾莖為粟柄、易短壽作長年，不是神通妙用，亦非法爾如然。且道他憑箇什麼有如是作用？若猶未委，更聽一則爛葛藤。昔龐居士道：『有男不婚，有女不嫁，大家團圞頭，共說無生話。』今日法顯居士初度之辰入山飯僧，舉家學道雖不能如古人行徑，亦欲彷彿其家風，也要說幾句無生話，奈乎舌頭猶未拖地，特借山僧拄杖子出口氣。且道與他說箇什麼方是無生話？」驀拈拄杖打圓相，云：「萬點青山常不動，一谿淥水古今流。」

> \[The meditation hall is arranged for a Dharma talk to celebrate Layman Fǎxiǎn's birthday. The Master ascends the seat.\] \*\*Master:\*\* "Our parents are not our closest. So who is the closest one?" \*He gives a sharp shout.\* "At the moment it pierces through your skull, the whole body is already revealed. Everyone, do you recognize this person? This person cannot be moved by heat or cold; cannot be shifted by birth or death. They can compress a cosmic eon into a single day, and stretch a single day into an eon. They can change a rice stem into a grain stalk, swap a short lifespan for a long one. This is not some magical trick, nor is it simply 'the natural way of things.' So tell me, what does this person rely on to have such powers?" \*Pause.\* "If you still don't understand, listen to one more twisted tale. Long ago, Layman Páng said: 'I have a son who doesn't marry, a daughter who doesn't wed. We all gather together, speaking of the unborn truth.' Today is Layman Fǎxiǎn's birthday. He has come into the mountains to feed the monks. His whole family studies the Way. Though they cannot follow the old masters' paths exactly, they wish to imitate their family tradition and speak a few words about the unborn truth. But their tongues are not yet free, so they've borrowed my staff to speak for them. Now, what should I tell them that would truly be words about the unborn truth?" \*He suddenly takes the staff, draws a circle in the air, and says:\* "Ten thousand green mountains have always remained still. A single stream of clear water flows through the ages."

小參，師坐次，僧作禮云：「請師親切便道。」師云：「階前怪石點頭笑。」進云：「只道得一半。」師云：「汝道得麼？」進云：「雪上加霜。」師云：「有甚麼交涉？」乃云：「大方手眼，不涉𦆆纖；格外徽猷，本無窠臼。舉一明三，當下知歸；眨上眉毛，早已蹉過。豈不見僧問香林：『如何是衲衣下事？』林云：『臘月火燒山。』」拈云：「壁立萬仞，不落情解；橫身為物，超邁古今。若於此中領略得出，可以攪長河為酥酪、變大地作黃金；若未徹頭，瞬目白雲千萬里，漫將機境話疏親。」

> A brief instruction: One day the Master sat. A student bowed and said, "Please, in all sincerity, speak directly." The Master said: "At the foot of the steps, the strange stone nods and smiles." The student responded: "You have only said half of it." The Master said: "Can you say it?" The student said: "Adding frost upon snow." (Doing something superfluous or making things worse) The Master said: "What does that have to do with it?" Then said: "The great principle's hand and eye do not touch even the finest thread. The subtle teachings beyond the usual pattern originally have no fixed nest or trap. Raise one point to illuminate three—right here, you should know to return. But blink an eyebrow, and you've already missed it. Haven't you seen the monk who asked Xianglin, 'What is the matter concerning a monk's robe?' Xianglin said, 'A fire burns the mountain in the twelfth month.' (The vital matter emerges when the extreme conditions are met, like cold winter kindling fire.) Evaluating: Standing like a cliff ten thousand feet high, it does not fall into emotion or intellectual understanding. Setting oneself aside out of compassion benefits beings; such spirit surpasses both ancient and modern. If you can comprehend in this spot, you can churn the long river into cream, turn the great earth into gold. But if you have not fully penetrated, in the blink of an eye, white clouds stretch countless miles, and you vainly chatter about closeness and distance through situations and states."

湘水呂將軍為圓彩薙髮，請小參。「披甲整戈，口吞佛祖；拘弓折箭，眼蓋乾坤。拈卻炙脂帽子，脫卻鶻臭布衫，直下休歇將去，可作一員無事道人。今日是呂護法設齋披剃者僧，欲山僧舉揚第一義諦，發明生死關頭，山僧亦不如何若何，只得與伊一刀兩段。」乃高聲喝云：「出群須是英靈漢，敵勝還他獅子兒。」

> General Lu of the Xiang River shaved the head of Yuan Cai and asked for a brief sermon. “Don your armor and ready your weapons, swallowing the Buddha himself with your mouth; bend your bow and snap your arrows, with your eyes covering heaven and earth. Cast off your greasy hat of attachment, remove your stinking monk’s robe, and directly cease all striving—this makes you a person of the Way free from worldly concerns. Today, as the lay patron Lu sponsors the shaving and ordination of this monk, he wishes this mountain monk to proclaim the ultimate truth and illuminate the crucial point of life-and-death. This mountain monk will not resort to any fancy talk; I must cut through it all in one clean slice.” Then he shouted loudly: “Those who transcend the crowd must be heroic spirits; defeating worthy opponents requires a lion’s cub.”

為發真禪人披剃，小參。「金刀薙髮若為論？截斷世間生死根，從此古今成榜樣，心燈慧命續兒孫。從上老古錐向塵勞中開解脫門，正欲人直下出三界之家，坐斷乾坤，頓入無為之地。還會得麼？」乃拈起袈裟，云：「且向衣線下薦取。」喝一喝。

> For the novice monk Zhen of Enlightenment, as he shaves his head and enters the path, a brief instruction is given. "Can the golden blade that shaves the head be fully explained? It cuts off the root of birth and death in this world. From then on, ancient and modern ways become a model, and the lamp of the mind and the flame of wisdom are passed down through spiritual descendants. The wise masters of old opened the gate of liberation amid the toils of worldly suffering, wanting people to directly leave the prison of the Three Realms, sever the heavens and earth, and suddenly enter the realm of effortless stillness. Can you grasp this?" Then, lifting the monastic robe, he said, "See, it is right there, under the thread of this garment." He then gave a sharp shout.

小參。「入此門來，莫存知解，知解若存，漆桶不快，一朝打破，大好境界。且道是什麼境界？」以拂子擊禪床，云：「大地平沉，虛空粉碎。」復舉安禪師破句讀《楞嚴經》因緣，師云：「者漢撈蜆摸蝦，忽然撞過龍門，是汝諸人還曾恁麼一回也無？若未恁麼，莫將閒學解，埋沒祖師心。」喝一喝。

> Small Talk. "As you enter this gate, discard all intellectual understanding. If understanding lingers, your mind remains dull as a lacquered bucket. Once it shatters, a magnificent realm appears. Now, what is this realm?" He struck the meditation seat with his whisk and said, "The great earth sinks to nothing; the vast void shatters into dust." He then recounted the story of Elder An who misinterpreted a verse from the \*Shurangama Sutra\*. The Master said, "That fellow was just fishing for clams and shrimp, when suddenly he crossed over the Dragon Gate. Have any of you ever had such an experience? If not, don't bury the ancestral masters' mind beneath idle academic knowledge." Then he shouted once.

師過牂牁郡桃源山房，眾請小參。師云：「滿城旗鼓，畫角刁斗，犬吠驢鳴，馬嘶象吼，七縱八橫，佛法大有，何待山僧更揚家醜？雖然如是，十字街頭鬧浩浩，孤峰頂上峭巍巍，總不涉二途，清淨法身在什麼處？」卓拄杖，云：「雨打梨華蛺蝶飛，風吹柳絮毛毬走。」

> The Master passed by the Peach Blossom Mountain Retreat in Zangke Prefecture. The assembly requested a brief dharma discourse. The Master said: "The whole city is filled with banners and drums, With watchmen's horns and signal bells. Dogs bark, donkeys bray, Horses neigh, elephants roar. Crisscrossing in all directions, The Dharma abounds everywhere. Why should this mountain monk further air his family's dirty linen? Even so, On bustling street corners, noise swirls; On solitary mountain peaks, sheer cliffs tower. If you don't take either path, Where can the pure Dharma body be found?" He struck the ground with his staff and said: "Rain strikes pear blossoms—butterflies flit away; Wind blows willow catkins—fur balls tumble about."

起七，小參。「玄沙不度嶺，保福不度河，豈有一七、二七之工？趙州八十載，長慶七蒲團，又豈止一七、二七之工？看者一隊老古錐，一等是神通妙用，一等是田地穩密，而今者裏不循舊轍，特地建長期，長期立短限，猛力追尋，拶到羅紋結角處，萬緣寢息，六窗幽閒，根塵不偶，疑悟相通。且道：猢猻伎倆盡時還有轉身處也無？」喝一喝，云：「傲寒骨力勝霜雪，贏得梅華獨早開。」

浴佛，小參。舉世尊初生因緣，拈云：「釋迦老子開闢封疆，雲門大師戡定乾坤，雖然彼此汗馬功高，爭奈至今干戈不息？檢點將來，總是一隊郎當漢，敗闕不少。山僧與麼告報，眾中還有為他雪屈者麼？如無，山僧只得自澆一杓惡水去也。」震威喝一喝，下座。

> Bathing the Buddha: A Short Dharma Talk. Taking up the story of the World-Honored One's birth, the Master said: "Old Shakya opened up new territory, and Great Master Yunmen settled the realm. Although both made great contributions, why is the clamor of battle never-ending to this day? Looking back at it all, they were just a group of unruly fellows, not without their share of mistakes. Now that the mountain monk has explained it this way, is there anyone here who can speak for them and clear their name? If not, the mountain monk will have to pour a ladle of filthy water over them himself." With a stern, thunderous shout, he stepped down from his seat.

遵義兵憲薛護法火葬萬骨，請小參。「瘴雲淨盡，日月重輝；華雨飛颺，乾坤生色。大人境界，大人作用。今日薛大護法就宦海中高建法幢，請山僧激揚箇事，為迷途津梁。」驀拈拄杖，卓一卓，云：「山僧適纔相席打令，驚起依草附木精靈，跳在拄杖頭上打箇筋斗，共說兩句無生話去也。試問諸人：且道是那兩句聻？」喝一喝，云：「百骸俱潰散，一物鎮長靈。」復舉：「世尊因耆婆善別音響，至一塚間，乃敲一髑髏，問曰：『此生何處？』耆婆曰：『此生人道。』又敲一髑髏，問曰：『此生何處？』曰：『此生天道。』又敲一髑髏，問曰：『此生何處？』耆婆罔知生處。」拈曰：「世尊旁敲正打，言中有響；耆婆隨邪逐惡，不是知音，未免當頭蹉過。爭似者裏一坑埋卻，不惟出他古人一頭地，抑不使承虛接響之流鑽龜打瓦？雖然如是，髑髏今日如山嶽，畢竟生何處？」乃以拄杖打圓相，云：「烈火燄中同鍛煉，紅塵堆裏白蓮開。」