68What's Your Name?
Introduction 垂示
掀天關,翻地軸,擒虎兕,辨龍蛇。須是箇活鱍鱍漢,始得句句相投、機機相應。且:從上來什麼人合恁麼?請舉看。
Tip the sky off its hinge, flip the earth off its axle. Grab tigers and wild oxen, tell dragons from snakes. You have to be a live wire of a man before every line clicks and every move lands. So tell me, who down the ages has ever pulled it off? Here's a case to test it.
仰山問三聖:「汝名什麼?」聖云:「惠寂。」仰山云:「惠寂是我。」聖云:「我名惠然。」仰山呵呵大笑。
Yangshan asked Sansheng, "What's your name?"
Sansheng said, "Huiji."
Yangshan said, "Huiji is my name."
Sansheng said, "My name is Huiran."
Yangshan roared with laughter.
Verse 頌
雙收雙放若為宗,
騎虎由來要絕功。
笑罷不知何處去,
只應千古動悲風。
Both seize, both let go — call that the way.
Riding the tiger has always meant dropping all skill.
The laughter ends. Where has he gone?
Only to stir, a thousand years, a grieving wind.