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title: "介菴進禪師語錄 · 小參"
description: "介菴進禪師語錄是清代臨濟宗高僧介菴悟進的語錄彙編，由弟子真理等人編纂，並附有源流頌。該書成書於清代，反映了當時禪宗的發展面貌與修行風氣。內容主要收錄介菴禪師上堂說法、機鋒對答、開示弟子及偈頌等，語言直指人心，體現了臨濟宗峻烈直接的宗風。此語錄是研究清代禪宗，特別是臨濟宗法脈傳承與禪學思想的重要文獻，對於理解當時禪門的實踐與理論具有較高的歷史與佛教價值。"
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## 介菴進禪師語錄卷四

> Volume 4 of Chan Master Jie'an Jin's Recorded Sayings

住蘇州青蓮禪寺嗣法門人真炯編

### 小參

冬至，小參。僧問：「仲冬嚴寒即不問，一陽來復事如何？」師云：「七花八裂。」僧云：「秪如撥轉天關，掀翻地軸，是什麼人境界？」師便打。僧云：「恁麼則獨步大方去也。」師云：「看你出醜。」乃云：「群陰剝盡，一陽復生，范蠡湖寒冰發燄，陶朱里枯木花開，直得燈籠起舞，露柱懷胎。若是目機銖兩底，一點瞞他不得；脫或未然，未免寒暑推遷，隨流節序。」驀拈拄杖，云：「只這個，能為萬象主，不逐四時凋。且道作麼生是不凋底意？」良久，云：「我愛日長添一線，大家撫掌樂昇平。」卓拄杖一下。

> Winter Solstice. Informal Dharma talk. A monastic asked: "I'm not asking about the bitter cold of midwinter — what about when the Yang energy first returns?" The master said: "Shattered into seven pieces, cracked into eight." The monastic asked: "When one turns the celestial pivot and flips the earthly axis — what kind of person's realm is that?" The master struck him. The monastic said: "In that case, I'll stride freely through the great way." The master said: "Look at you making a fool of yourself." Then the master said: "All the Yin forces have been stripped away, and the one Yang has returned to life. In Fanli Lake, the icy cold water blazes with fire; in Taozhu Village, withered trees burst into bloom. The lanterns begin to dance, and the pillars become pregnant. If you have the eye to judge the slightest difference, you can't be fooled even a bit. But if not, you're inevitably pushed along by the cycle of cold and heat, following the flow of the seasons." Suddenly, the master lifted his staff and said: "Just this — this can be the master of all phenomena, yet it doesn't fade with the four seasons. Tell me, what is the meaning of 'not fading'?" After a long pause, he said: "I love that the day lengthens by one thread — everyone claps along, rejoicing in peace." He struck the ground once with his staff.

佛成道日，小參。僧問：「雪擁巖扉，直得寒灰荳爆；雲開戶牖，洞明古佛家風。未審威音王已前還有這個消息也無？」師云：「塞卻汝眼。」僧云：「靈山一會，儼然未散。」師云：「你鼻孔在甚麼處？」僧云：「萬古碧潭空界月，再三撈摝始應知。」師便打。僧云：「大眾證明。」師云：「證明你這漆桶。」乃舉：「華頂無見睹和尚讚云：『六年苦行，一麻一麥，餓得面皮黃，凍得眼睛白，夜半睹明星，無端揚醜惡，累及後代兒孫，個個無繩自縛，髼頭跣足出山來，一任天下人貶剝。』」卓拄杖，云：「大眾還見釋迦老子麼？若也見得，便見無見老祖；設或未然，更聽一偈：棄王宮，投雪嶺，一睹明星成正覺，皮穿骨露歎眾生，贏得年年呷薄粥。呵呵呵，也大奇，一輪杲日麗中天，六六元來三十六。」復卓，下座。

> On the day of the Buddha’s enlightenment, there was a brief Dharma assembly. A monk asked: “The snow blocks the rocky door, so that cold ashes burst into flames; the clouds open the windows, revealing the ancient Buddha’s family style. Before the King of Awesome Sound, was there such a message or not?” The master said: “Block your eyes.” The monk said: “The assembly on Vulture Peak seems not yet dispersed.” The master said: “Where is your nose?” The monk said: “Like the moon in an ancient blue pond’s empty sky, only after repeated scoopings do you finally know it.” The master then struck him. The monk said: “The assembly bears witness.” The master said: “Bear witness to your lacquer bucket.” Then the master raised the verse: “The Venerable Wujian of Huading praised: ‘Six years of ascetic practice, one sesame seed, one grain of wheat, starved until his face turned yellow, frozen until his eyes turned white. At midnight he saw the bright star, and without reason stirred up ugliness. He dragged his descendants, each bound by ropes with no rope, messy-haired and barefoot as he came down the mountain, allowing the world to criticize and peel him away.’” Striking his staff, he said: “Assembly, do you see the old man Shakyamuni? If you see him, you see the old ancestor Wujian. If not, listen to another verse: Abandoning the royal palace, climbing the Snowy Peak, seeing the bright star became one with awakening. Skin broken, bones exposed, pity for sentient beings, earning a thin gruel every year. Haha, how strange! One bright sun hangs in mid-sky, six sixes are thirty-six.” Striking again, he descended from the seat.

除夕，小參。「窮時、窮日、窮月、窮年，北禪烹牯、王老燒錢，金明這裏無可與諸人分歲，剛剛只得一雙空手，不妨應個時節。」遂擲拂子，云：「撥燒榾柮火，隨例接新年。」甲申，東塔請師秉拂小參。僧問：「擬伸一問，師還答否？」師云：「不答。」僧云：「為甚麼不答？」師云：「咭嘹舌頭三千里。」僧禮拜，師打，云：「且道：是賞？是罰？」僧云：「棒頭有眼通消息，句下無私越聖凡。」師云：「負恩者多。」問：「如何是話頭？」師云：「殘碑橫古寺。」僧云：「不會。」師云：「月落響前溪。」一僧遽出，云：「達磨來也。」師云：「也須喫棒。」和聲便打，乃云：「若論此一著子，多寶佛塔從朝至暮竭盡為大眾說了也，何用進上座搖唇鼓舌作麼？今日既承方丈和尚命為小參，不免略通一線。」良久，云：「無情說法響如雷，徹底教人當下歸，聞者自聞聵者聵，故來土上又添堆。且道：聞又聞個甚麼？」豎起拂子，云：「若向這裏透得去，不妨省力，聞也得、不聞也得、聞與不聞總得；設或未然，聞也不得、不聞也不得、聞與不聞總不得。何故？若將耳聽終難會，眼處聞聲方得知。」喝一喝，下座。

> \*\*New Year's Eve Dharma Talk\*\* "Poor in season, poor in day, poor in month, poor in year— North Zen slaughters an ox, Old Wang burns paper money. Here at Golden Clarity, I have nothing to share with all of you for the year's end—just a pair of empty hands, to match the occasion." He tossed the whisk and said: "Poking the embers of the firewood, Following custom to welcome the new year." In the year Jia-Shen, East Pagoda invited the Master to give a special dharma talk. A monk asked: "If I were to ask a question, would you answer?" The Master said: "No." The monk said: "Why not?" The Master said: "Your clattering tongue stretches three thousand miles." The monk bowed. The Master struck him and said: "Tell me—is this reward or punishment?" The monk said: "The tip of the staff has eyes that transmit the message; beneath the phrase, there is no bias that transcends the ordinary and sacred." The Master said: "Many are those who forget kindness." Another monk asked: "What is the meditation topic?" The Master said: "A broken stele lies across an ancient temple." The monk said: "I don't understand." The Master said: "The moon sets, sounding in the stream ahead." Suddenly a monk rushed out and said: "Bodhidharma has come!" The Master said: "You still need a beating." And he struck him in unison with his voice. Then he said: "As for this one point, the Many-Jeweled Pagoda has been speaking it to you all from morning till night. Why do I, Upāsaka Jin, need to wag my tongue? Today, having been asked by the abbot to give this talk, I cannot but reveal a little thread." After a long pause, he said: "The insentient preach the Dharma, sounding like thunder, Thoroughly causing people to return to their true home. Those who hear it hear; those who are deaf are deaf. Thus, on top of earth, another heap is added." "Tell me—what is it that one hears?" He raised his whisk and said: "If you can penetrate through this, you'll save effort. Hearing is fine; not hearing is fine; both hearing and not hearing are fine. But if not, then hearing is not fine, not hearing is not fine, and both hearing and not hearing are not fine. Why? If you try to hear with your ears, it's hard to grasp; only when your eyes hear the sound can you truly know." He gave a shout, and stepped down from the seat.

小參。師云：「無去無來全體現，不生不滅絕行蹤，只因迷妄見差別，直指人人徹舊容。」拈起拄杖，云：「見麼？見則非色。」卓拄杖，云：「聞麼？聞則非聲。所以云：『只此見聞非見聞，無餘聲色可呈君，個中若了全無事，體用何妨分不分？』若也會得，生也是這個、死也是這個，分也是這個、不分也是這個。這個且止，秪如今日孝子趙永聲追薦先考敬萱、先妣李氏，即今在甚麼處安身立命？還委悉麼？頭頭盡是光明藏，遍界無非極樂邦。」復卓拄杖，下座。

佛誕日，笑堂請小參。「今朝正值四月八，摩耶夫人生悉達，九龍吐水徹金軀，六種震動雙眸豁。手指天地逞本懷，周行七步遍塵剎，口裏喃喃稱獨尊，賺他男女多驚赫。惹起韶陽老古錐，鐵棒橫拈要打殺，打不殺伊流至今，一年一度惡水潑。山僧乞食過鹽官，檀信殷勤請說法，陞於此座說甚麼？無孔鐵鎚當面擲。」驀豎拂子，召眾，云：「還見釋迦老子麼？」遂擲下。一僧拈起，云：「原來在這裏。」師便打。一僧顧傍僧，云：「多口阿師。」師亦打。

薦慈，小參。師以拂子擊三下，云：「秋風生夜涼，破壁吟寒螿，若人信得及，處處沒遮藏。昔有殃崛摩羅尊者，因持缽至一長者門，其家婦人正值產難，長者問曰：『瞿曇弟子！汝為至聖，當為何法令免產難？』尊者曰：『我乍入門，未知此法，待問世尊，卻來相報。』及返，具事白佛，佛云：『汝速去告言：「我從賢聖法來，未曾殺生。」』尊者奉佛，疾往告之，其婦得聞，當時分娩。」師云：「好與三十棒。不意二千年後有羅氏淑人欲翻舊案，且無尊者至門，及居士發問，便乃撇然長往，亦好與三十棒。今值五七之辰，孝童周櫮、周樑懇請山僧舉揚此事，用薦先慈。」驀召大眾，云：「還知山僧兩處棒頭落處麼？苟知落處，方可自由，隨處解脫，不為富貴之所籠罩、苦樂之所纏縛，直得生死一如、古今一致；脫或不然，未免情生智隔、想變體殊，業識茫茫，無本可據，便有四生六道、三塗八難之苦。且道今日山僧作麼生薦拔？」良久，云：「見麼？血河化作白蓮池，濁世頓成清淨界。」喝一喝，擊拂子，下座。

冬至，羅居士薦親，請小參。問：「群陰盡，一陽生，正當與麼時，薦拔一句請師舉揚。」師便打，僧云：「恁麼則湘琳老居士全承恩力去也。」師云：「更須進步。」僧呈具，云：「大眾見麼？」師云：「你見個什麼？」僧云：「不妨疑著。」師呵呵大笑，乃云：「一切法不生，一切法不滅，若能如是解，諸佛常現前。」喝一喝，云：「冷灰裏荳爆了也，汝等作麼生？若是宿有靈根底漢，管取一撥便轉，便知自己安身立命處，時時頂𩕳上一陽來復、日日腳跟下萬彙發生，如盤走珠，轉轆轆地。眾生秪為昧此不生不滅之體，隨境生情、隨情造業、隨業緣故，三界升沉，受報好醜。今日孝子羅開驎同弟子騆，以此不生不滅之誠，恭請山僧舉揚不生不滅之法，用薦嚴慈衡陽令湘琳公沈氏孺人，證此不生不滅之體，直與三世諸佛同一道場、同一受用，出沒卷舒，縱橫自在。秪如超然獨脫一句又作麼生？天高雲象正，瑞氣滿庭中。」喝一喝，下座。

聖節。以拄杖橫按，云：「世尊不說說，迦葉不聞聞，蜘蛛非烏梅，蜻蜓非銹釘，紫雲峰下折腳鐺。」復卓一卓，云：「金明以此祝聖君。」

小參。師云：「法不孤起，仗境方生。悟進自住金明以來，杜門六載，抱病過時，不料於今有執事人等相逼病僧結制，況且柴無一根、米無一粒、菜無一莖，直得空牢牢地，致使諸方衲子到來聞見，笑破脣皮有分。今晚事不獲已，舉個舊案：昔日睦州唆臨濟問話，不是好心；楊岐請慈明晚參，不是好心。今晚執事逼我病僧結制，且道是好心？不是好心？試定當看。苟或不然，未免唐喪光陰，虛消信施，一朝打到閻老子面前喫鐵棒，莫道病僧不為汝等說破。」

除夕，弟子全真設齋請小參。師云：「年去年來沒有盡期，致得北禪分歲一味豐饒，石屋除年十分賣俏，金明這裏總不與他鬥富，且道又作麼生過歲？」顧左右云：「明晨大殿裏拈香。」復舉：「僧問無幻祖翁云：『臘月三十日到來時如何？』翁云：『家無索債人。』金明則不然，設有人問：『臘月三十日到來時如何？』但向他道：『爆竹響如雷。』且道與古人是同是別？試分析看。」

除夕，小參。問：「古德云：『晚參不答話。』今夜和尚晚參，還容問話者麼？」師便打，僧云：「分明一句無私語，舉出諸人側耳聽。」師云：「禮拜了，喫茶去。」僧云：「金風吹玉笛，幾個是知音？」師云：「獨你不知。」乃云：「歲盡、月盡、日盡、時盡，無明煩惱一齊盡。所以，經云：『無無明，亦無無明盡。』向這裏得個入處，始知金明度歲家風迥別，無牛可烹、無道可說，踏著稱錘原是鐵。不則，更燒一爐榾柮，烈燄亙天，使大家煖烘烘地一場快活。雖然，各須照顧眉毛，明朝與汝等宣妙訣。」下座。

師為峽石汪子瑜對靈小參。云：「疇昔金明坐七期，幾番錐劄為君癡，而今既得知歸也，劈面霜風正此時。昔道吾弔慰，侍者拊棺云：『生耶？死耶？』吾云：『生也不道，死也不道。』侍云：『為甚麼不道？』吾云：『不道，不道。』這老漢只解把住，不解放行。金明則不然，若有問：『生耶？死耶？』但云：『道！道！』更問：『道個甚麼？』劈脊便棒。苟知落處，便解活人路上死人無數，死人身上有活人出身處。其或未然，更聽一偈：踢翻生死海，打破涅槃城，從來十九路，迷悟幾多人？」

護法眾紳士請修建豎竿，小參。師橫按拄杖云：「世尊建梵剎，拖泥帶水；長者插莖草，見義勇為。二千七百年前已曾倒卻，雞足峰頭貧如徹骨；二千七百年後今朝豎起，范蠡湖上特地光輝。直得掀天揭地、換斗移星，管取福國祐民，時清道泰。」召大眾云：「金明復整規模，且道承誰恩力？」驀豎拄杖云：「將此深心奉塵剎，是則名為報佛恩。」下座。

除夕，小參。「去年貧徹骨，今年徹骨貧，直貧貧徹底，始見徹貧貧。」驀卓拄杖，云：「擊碎虛空煨榾柮，拍雙赤手接豐年。」復卓一下。

項別駕請師點主對靈小參。師云：「無常生死法，漚露若夢幻，惟善能奉持，當處即解脫。所以古佛云：『假借四大以為身，心本無生因境有，前境若無心亦無，罪福如幻起亦滅。』」驀豎拂子云：「這個是心耶？境耶？既不是心，又不是境，且道是個甚麼？」擊拂云：「君子可卜。今日牧公居士為先伯思華公五七之辰，敦請山僧舉揚個事，用薦先靈。且道思華公四大歸空、五蘊非有，主人公在什麼處？」乃舉筆召眾云：「還見麼？如或未然，山僧為伊指出去也。」點一點云：「金剛三昧力，在處是祇園。」遂擲下。

對靈，小參。師云：「諸行無常，是生滅法，生滅滅已，寂滅為樂。咄！古佛僥舌放過一著，金明無法可說，且喜公案現成，蟾桂暗飄香，日輪正當午，遍界絕遮藏，一一無回互，秪為當人迷己逐物，故被輪轉而不證得。還有不受輪轉者麼？」遂以拂拂，云：「今日孝子沈梧陽恭請山僧舉揚般若，為薦先嚴常德少府鏡湄沈公資生淨土，隨處解脫，不被諸緣纏縛，任運逍遙，何妨本地風光？且道少府公即今在什麼處？」以拂指，云：「見麼？要且不是死。」放下拂，云：「還聞麼？要且不是生。既不是生，又不是死，畢竟作麼生？」良久，云：「道吾道底。昔有盤山聞昇喪歌，云：『紅輪必定沉西去，未審亡靈往那方？幙下哭哀哀。』盤山聞之，大悟。」師召眾，云：「還會麼？孝子哀哀也大奇，盤山剛悟鱉成龜，秋風滿地無人顧，赤燄丙丁不屬離。」擊拂子，下座。

施約菴薦室，請小參。師揮拂云：「西來祖意絕言詮，角里街頭說熾然，寂滅現前無罣礙，謝三端坐釣魚船。所以經云：『惟為此一大事因緣故出現於世，如優曇華時一現耳。』」驀拈拄杖云：「見麼？若也見得，便知今日居士施博同男鑒蘧、鑒夔，恭請山僧遽陞此座，為薦徐氏孺人早登蓮界；其或未能，更為拈出。昔有菴提遮女問文殊菩薩云：『明知生是不生之理，為甚麼卻被生死之所流轉？』文殊答云：『其力未充。』」師云：「大智老漢慈悲之故，有落草之談，揀點將來，只解把死雀兒就地彈，不解脫粘除縛，令伊撲地高飛。或問金明，又且不然，但向伊道：『今日斷七。』」召大眾云：「還知徐氏孺人落處麼？」良久，云：「東籬黃菊綻，木馬嘯清風。」卓杖，下座。

朱孝廉薦室，請小參。師云：「妙性圓明，離諸名相，皆因妄想執著故受輪轉，所以有生、有死，有天堂、有地獄，有苦、有樂，被諸纏縛不得自由。」驀卓拄杖，云：「若向這裏會得，生死不是生死，天堂地獄苦樂不是天堂地獄苦樂，一切籠檻隨處解脫。今日孝廉朱之佐同男蝥弧，恭請山僧舉揚般若，用薦王氏孺人悟無生忍，且道如何指示？」良久，云：「逍遙步步蓮華國，蟾桂娑婆暗度香。」復卓一下。

小參。師云：「正值村庄菜麥秋，山悠悠處水悠悠，扁舟渡此分明示，縱使迷流也徹頭。」卓拄杖，云：「若向這裏會得，如子得母、如貧得寶，壒𡒁堆頭輝杲日，全彰智體；谷庄溪畔鼓蛙鳴，悉是真機。脫或不然，未免如蠶作繭，自纏自縛，又如苦鴉鳥晝夜啼不輟，胡能得自由耶？今日機圓，為母金氏四七之辰，懇請老僧舉揚般若，令其解脫，速得往生。且道作麼生拯濟？」以杖擊几，云：「彌陀恒不昧，何處不西方？」拽杖便起。

小參。僧問：「朔風侵骨髓，兩眼失西東，寒梅纔撲鼻，不與聖凡同。不與聖凡同者，卻與阿誰同出氣？」師云：「腦後見腮，莫與往來。」僧云：「世尊睹明星，未審悟個甚麼？」師便打，乃云：「世尊睹明星，大眾喫饘粥，個事知不知？寒鴉鳴古木。今日行堅薦母，記得古德云：『婆婆送我一百光，要薦丈夫往西方，此去西方十萬里，百錢只好到餘杭。』果生餘杭。端師說法雖然靈驗，檢點將來大似埠頭舟子，只在塗路上較短論長，致令不得到家。金明則不然，但有誠心何論光？直指其母往西方，識得西方路無別，纔生一念到蓮邦。」遂召僧，僧出作禮，師便下座。

即事，晚參。舉：「南泉住菴時，一僧到，泉乃云：『某甲上山作務，請齋時作飯自喫了，卻送一分來。』其僧齋辦自喫了，卻將家事一時打破，仍就床臥。泉伺久不來，遂歸，見僧臥，泉亦一邊臥，僧便起去。泉後住院，云：『我住菴時，有個伶俐道者來，直至如今不見。』」師云：「南泉老漢大似勾賊破家，重重納敗。這僧雖則呈露本有風光，只是胡行亂做，不意金明亦有個俗來，卻把常住家事打破，如蟲禦木，偶爾成文，未免累他衛護，費力整理設齋，復請山僧回院陞座。山僧今日只得將錯就錯，圓此一段公案了也。」驀召大眾云：「且道南泉住菴底是？金明住院底是？眾中若有緇素得出，許伊具一隻眼；其或不然，頂笠腰包齊放下，大家重整舊家風。」遂拽杖歸方丈。

結制，晚參。「末法叢林，澆漓日甚，去實取華，忘源失旨，乃至業識茫茫，無本可據，逐妄隨情，深可憐愍。山僧本欲埋頭遣過生綠，爭奈普明老人有不了底公案，今日出來鈍置，幸有諸昆仲相聚，克究此事。當知參須實參、悟須實悟，莫效他依依俙俙、魍魍魎魎及莽鹵承當者。只如初學晚進，固宜廢寢忘餐、摩裙擦褲；總使宿學久參，也須更宜進步，切忌坐在無事甲裏，更有不能脫下貼肉汙衫者。如是禪病，各各仔細，切不可空過。」復舉：「僧問乾峰：『十方薄伽梵，一路涅槃門，且道路頭在甚麼處？』乾以杖劃一劃，云：『在這裏。』雲門云：『扇子𨁝跳上三十三天，𡎺著帝釋鼻孔，東海鯉魚打一棒，雨似盆傾。』」師云：「一人高高山頂立，讓之有餘；一人深深海底行，爭之不足。金明即不然，或有人問，劈脊便棒。還有知棒頭落處麼？」卓拄杖便起。

寧南候二十周忌，小參。師拈拄杖顧左右云：「會得這一著，便解發大機、顯大用，按河海而不波、鎮華嶽而不動，權衡在握，縱奪自由。雖然，須是恁麼人始得。今日孝婿項謙特請山僧陞于此座，為薦伊先外考世鎮湖廣等處寧南候崑山左公、先外妣誥封一品彭氏夫人，同登極樂，悟無生忍。且道即今在什麼處安身立命？還委悉麼？」遂卓拄杖云：「幽州江口石人蹲。」下座。

項居士薦室，小參。師云：「霜樹萬山花，明明祖師意，去來人不知，卻把路頭棄。今茲項真本，存心於孝義，特請老比丘，說法薦其室。左氏二十周，直示元無忌，一念頓回光，超彼三乘地。」