62Mihu Asks About Awakening米胡悟否
Introduction 示眾
達磨第一義諦，梁武頭迷；淨名不二法門，文殊口過。還有入作分也無？
Bodhidharma's "highest truth," and Emperor Wu's head went fuzzy. Vimalakirti's "gate beyond opposites," and even Manjushri said too much. So is there any way in at all?
米胡令僧問仰山：「今時人還假悟否？」山云：「悟即不無，爭奈落第二頭何？」僧迴，舉似米胡，胡深肯之。
Mihu sent a monk to put a question to Yangshan: "Do people these days still need to wake up, or not?"
Yangshan said, "Waking up, sure, that's real enough. But what do you do about landing one step short of it?"
The monk went back and reported this to Mihu, who gave it his deep approval.
Verse 頌
第二頭分悟破迷，
快須撒手捨筌罤。
功兮未盡成駢拇，
智也難知覺噬臍。
兔老氷盤秋露泣，
鳥寒玉樹曉風凄。
持來大仰辨直假，
痕玷全無貴白珪。
One step short: there waking breaks the dark.
Quick, let go. Drop the net once you've got the fish.
Push the work too far and you grow a sixth finger;
even sharp wits can't see it, and then it's too late to gnaw your own navel.
The old rabbit on the icy moon weeps autumn dew;
a cold bird in the jade tree, the dawn wind keening.
Bring it to great Yangshan, he'll sort the true from the false:
not a flaw, not a stain, prized like white jade.