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发帖数: 1037 | 1 《无门关》公案18 洞山三斤
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洞山和尚。因僧問。如何是佛。山云。麻三斤
A monk asked Master Tōzan in all earnestness, “What is Buddha?” Tōzan
said, “Masagin! (Three pounds of flax!)”
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But for the moment, let us take this Buddha to be the Buddha mind, our
essential nature or our primal face before our parents were born. Without
true enlightenment, we cannot meet our own inner Buddha. Even though we
remain unenlightened, however, if we have no lump of ego, our mind will
naturally harmonize with the Buddha mind.
But what does three pounds？ Whatever you say, it is just that. Nothing else
. When you say “ma,” what else is there? When there is nothing else, “ma
” is Mu, and it is the perfect manifestation of the whole universe. The
whole universe is occupied by “ma,” and nothing remains outside of it.
Another name for massagin（麻三斤） is Mu. When you open the enlightened
eye, you will realize at once that masagin is nothing other than the one who
is standing up, sitting down, eating meals, reciting sutras, sleeping,
crying, and so on. Really, massaging （麻三斤） is another name for your
essential nature right here and now.
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無門曰。洞山老人參得些蚌蛤禪。纔開兩片。露出肝膓。然雖如是且道。向甚處見洞山
Old Tōzan realized a bit of clam Zen. Slightly opening the two halves of
the shell, he exposed his liver and intestines. This may be so, but tell me,
where do you see Tōzan?
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This means that when Tōzan opens his lips and cries “Masagin!”, he
exposes his whole being, his essential nature. With “Masagin!” he is
presenting all the Dharmas of all Buddhas. Is that not the perfect
presentation of the whole?” “Aha!” This, too, can be the perfect
exposition of our essential nature. Where do you see Tōzan? Here! Masagin!
Whack!
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頌曰
突出麻三斤 言親意更親
來說是非者 便是是非人
Masagin juts forth! 突出麻三斤
Words are intimate and the mind is even more intimate. 言親意更親
He who speaks about right and wrong 來說是非者
Is a man of right and wrong. 便是是非人
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Masagin! Whack! That’s it! There is no front and back, upper and lower. It
just juts forth— Masagin! “Words are intimate and the mind is even more
intimate.” Intimate means, “That’s it.” Masagin! That’s it. Whack! That
’s it. The words “even more” are only rhetorical. There is no me outside
of masagin, and there is no masagin outside of me. Just One, without subject
or object, without awareness of anything.
“He who speaks about right and wrong ［來說是非者］ is a man of right and
wrong［便是是非人］.” Speaking about the yes or no of masagin has nothing
whatsoever to do with it. Masagin is a fact, not a concept. You should never
give any meaning to masagin or you will instantly deprive it of its life.
Tōzan ［洞山］ thrusts forth the real Buddha in front of you as masagin. If
you want to realize masagin absolutely, work on masagin just as you work on
Mu. If you keep working on masagin as though your very life depended on it,
suddenly your true inner life will spring forth. That is masagin! The fact
is self-evident. If a person argues and searches for something more than the
fact, he is a man of dualistic concepts. He will never grasp the fact.
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(公案链接同前 Page 6－7).
Yamada, Koun (2005-06-10). The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
(Kindle Locations 1536-1542). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition. |
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