81Xuansha and the Festival玄沙到縣
Introduction 示眾
動即影現，覺即塵生。舉起分明，放下穩密。本色道人相見，如何說話？
Move, and a shadow appears. Notice it, and dust kicks up. Lift it: crystal clear. Set it down: sealed tight. When two genuine men of the Way meet, how do they talk?
玄沙到蒲田縣，百戲迎之。次日問小塘長老：「昨日許多喧鬧，向甚麼處去也？」小塘提起袈裟角。沙云：「𩕐挑，沒交涉。」
Xuansha came to Putian county. The whole town turned out to welcome him with a hundred acts and entertainments. The next day he asked Elder Xiaotang, "All that racket yesterday, where has it gone?"
Xiaotang lifted the corner of his robe.
Xuansha said, "Way off. Not even close."
Verse 頌
夜壑藏舟，
澄源著棹。
龍魚未知水為命，
折筋不妨聊一攪。
玄沙師小塘老，
函蓋箭鋒，
探竿影草。
潛縮也老龜巢蓮，
游戲也華鱗弄藻。
A boat hidden in the night ravine,
a pole set in the clear depths.
Fish and dragons never know water is their life;
no harm in one stir with a snapped chopstick.
Xuansha the master, Xiaotang the old man:
box and lid, point against arrow,
probing pole, grass-shadowing line.
Lie low, and you're an old turtle bedded in lotus roots;
come out to play, and you're a bright-scaled fish flashing through the weeds.