42The Woman Comes Out of Samadhi女子出定
世尊昔因文殊至諸佛集處。值諸佛各還本處。惟有一女人。近彼佛坐入於三昧。文殊乃白佛。云何女人得近佛坐。而我不得。佛告文殊。汝但覺此女。令從三昧起。汝自問之。文殊遶女人三匝。鳴指一下。乃托至梵天。盡其神力。而不能出。世尊云。假使百千文殊亦出此女人定不得。下方過一十二億河沙國土。有罔明菩薩。能出此女人定。須臾罔明大士從地湧出。禮拜世尊。世尊敕罔明。卻至女人前。鳴指一下。女人於是從定而出。
Long ago, Manjushri came to a gathering of all the buddhas, just as they were each departing for their own realms. One woman alone remained, seated close beside the Buddha, sunk deep in meditation.
Manjushri asked the Buddha, "How is it that this woman gets to sit so near you, when I can't?"
The Buddha said, "Wake her. Bring her out of her trance and ask her yourself."
Manjushri circled the woman three times and snapped his fingers once. Nothing. He carried her up to the highest heaven and threw everything he had at her. Still she didn't stir.
The Buddha said, "A hundred thousand Manjushris couldn't pull this woman out of her meditation. But far below us, past more lands than there are grains of sand in twelve billion Ganges Rivers, lives a bodhisattva named Wangming. He can do it."
In an instant Wangming sprang up out of the earth and bowed to the Buddha. The Buddha told him to try. Wangming went and stood before the woman and snapped his fingers once, and at that she came out of her trance.
Wumen's Comment 無門曰
釋迦老子做者一場雜劇。不通小小。且道文殊是七佛之師。因甚出女人定不得。罔明初地菩薩。為甚卻出得。若向者裏。見得親切。業識忙忙 那伽大定。
Old man Shakyamuni staged quite a little circus here, and it's no small thing. Tell me: Manjushri is teacher to seven buddhas. Why couldn't he get the woman out? Wangming has barely set foot on the path. Why could he? See straight into this, and right where your mind churns in its restless karmic fog, you'll find the dragon's deep stillness itself.