(T. Cleary translation)
YUNYAN SWEEPS THE GROUND (Case 21)
POINTER:
Having shed illusion and enlightenment, having cut off holy and ordinary, although there are not so many things, setting up host and guest and distinguishing noble and mean is [still] a special house.
It's not that there is no giving jobs on assessment of ability, but how do you understand siblings with the same breath, adjoining branches?
CASE:
As YunYan was sweeping the ground, DaoWu said, "Too busy."
YunYan said, "You should know there's one who isn't busy."
DaoWu said, "If so, then there's a second moon."
YunYan held up the broom and said, "Which moon is this?"
DaoWu then stopped.
XuanSha:
"This is precisely the second moon."-
YunMen:
"When the butler sees the maid, he takes care."
COMMENTARY:
DaoWu bore down on YunYan, like FoGuo (YuanWu) urging on FoJian-- as it is said, "Without upset there is no solution, without struggle there is no expression."
Here as YunYan was sweeping the ground DaoWu casually tested him; YunYan said, "You should know there is one who isn't busy."
Good people, as you eat, boil tea, sew and sweep, you should recognize the one not busy--then you will realize the union of mundane reality and enlightened reality; in the DongShan progression this is called "simultaneous inclusion", naturally not wasting any time.
DaoWu immediately saw an open seam and said, "If so, there is a second moon."
Xuedou said as an alternative, "Almost might have been let pass."
The two old men feared that people would set up a reality-body as apart from the physical body.
National Teacher HuiZhong said to a Chan traveler from the South,
"For us here the buddha nature is completely unborn and undying; your buddha nature in the South there is half born, half dying, half unborn and undying."
The traveler said, "How do you distinguish?"
The teacher said,
"Here we say body and mind are one suchness; there's nothing outside of mind--therefore it's completely unborn and undying. You in the South say body is impermanent while the spiritual nature is permanent; there it's half born, half dying, half unborn and undying."
When you get here you must realize there's a time to turn around to the father.
YunYan then held up the broom and asked, "Which moon is this?"
This expression originally comes from the Heroic March Scripture, which says:
"Like the second moon, who will say it is the moon, who will deny it? For Manjusri only one moon is real--in between there is naturally nothing that is or is not the moon."
DaoWu immediately stopped.
According to one version DaoWu brushed out his sleeves and left. I say, "completely exposed".
But tell me, is it YunYan exposing DaoWu or DaoWu exposing YunYan?
Those who have clear eyes try to check it out and see.
XuanSha said, "Indeed this is the second moon."
This old fellow has correction fluid in his mouth, a sharp sword on his tongue.
ChangQing said, "What if he had the broom turned on him and shaken in his face?"
XuanSha then stopped.
LuoShan said, "Ah, these two old guys don't know good from bad! This fellow YunYan, bound hand and foot--how long has he been dead?!"
I say,
"I wouldn't say this wouldn't make it in the school of DeShan, but really it still wouldn't yet [make it] in the school of DongShan."
When XueFeng was traveling, he went to TouZi three times and climbed up to DongShan nine times.
One day as he was cleaning rice, DongShan asked him "Are you cleaning the grit getting rid of the rice or cleaning the rice getting rid of the grit?"
XueFeng said, "Grit and rice are gone at once."
DongShan said, "What will the community eat?"
XueFeng then turned over the bowl.
DongShan said, "You've got it, all right, but you need to see someone else before you realize it."
XuanSha and ChangQing succeeded to XueFeng, LuoShan succeeded to YanTou--all of them came from DeShan's gate; therefore one puts down, one uplifts--their words go against but their meanings accord.
Now both streams, DongShan and YunMen, are equally active--how could there be superior or inferior?
YunMen also said,
"The butler, seeing the maid, takes care."
Baofu said,
"YunYan is a lot like someone pushing a cart through mud, working hard very step of the way."
These two old adepts also succeeded to XueFeng--their speech and character naturally concur.
What they mean to say is that YunYan couldn't use the shaking of the broom to cut off complications; they still don't realize that there are thorns in the soft mud.
As WanSong unfolded this story, before he had finished reciting it, he unconsciously let out a laugh and said, "YunYan and DaoWu were illustrating the active conditions of the DongShan progression."
As for that other bunch of old guys, all their mouths consumed the gold, but none cleared the straits for him.
Submitted October 08, 2020 at 12:21AM by ZEROGR33N https://ift.tt/34Cho5l
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