打我

Hit Me

历史上的有些大成就者，在摄受弟子时除了温和的教言，也会采取特殊的方法令弟子顿时开悟。

In order to bring about their disciples’ sudden revelations, great masters throughout history at times employed some peculiar training methods besides using gentle words.

那若巴依止帝洛巴时经历了十二次大苦行、十二次小苦行。最后，有一天，帝洛巴左手抓住那若巴的喉窍，右手脱掉鞋子，拿起鞋猛击他的额头，那若巴骤然昏迷。苏醒之时，相续中生起了与上师一样的功德，证悟了上师的智慧与自己的心无二无别。

Naropa, when following Tilopa, underwent 12 major and 12 minor hardships. Finally, one day Tilopa grabbed Naropa’s throat with his left hand and with his right hand he took off his sandal and hit his disciple on the forehead with it. Naropa lost consciousness. When he came to, all the qualities of his teacher had arisen in him. The teacher’s wisdom and the disciple’s mind had become one in realization.

宋朝的了义禅师17岁时拜见高峰禅师，高峰禅师赐予他“万法归一”的参禅窍诀。此时，了义禅师见松树上落下雪花，便若有所悟地写出一首偈子呈师，师傅不由分说，提起木棒就将其打入深渊。遍体鳞伤的了义于痛苦中返观心的本性，终于得以远离一切方向与戏论，并写下“大地山河一片雪，太阳一出便无踪，自此不疑诸佛性，更失南北与西东”的佳句。

Zen master Liao Yi of the Song Dynasty at 17 paid a formal visit to Master Gao Feng and was given the pith instruction of meditating on “all phenomena converged to be one”. One day when seeing snowflakes fallen from pine branches, Liao Yi was inspired to write a poem which he submitted to his teacher. Giving no chance for explanation, the master lifted a wooden stick and hit the student down into a deep ravine. With painful wounds all over his body, Liao Yi reflected on the nature of the mind and finally reached the stage that is beyond all fixation and conception. He left these beautiful lines:

Gone swiftly is all the snow covering the vast land, once the sun appears.
My doubt in Buddhas and the fixation on east, south, west, or north, likewise, are now all vanished.

黄檗禅师在摄受弟子临济时，一共打了61棒，造就了旷古绝后的一代宗师，而使丛林里有“临济将军，曹洞农夫”之说。可见其秉承上师传统，青出于蓝而胜于蓝的禅风。

When Zen master Huang Bo took Lin Ji as his disciple, he hit him 61 times with sticks and made him the most outstanding Zen master in generations. There is a saying about Zen schools: “Lin Ji is like a war general, while Cao Dong is like a field farmer.” It’s obvious that Lin Ji, while carrying on the lineage tradition, also has developed his own unique Zen style that even surpasses his teacher’s.

什么时候上师也能给我当头一棒啊！

When, if ever, will my Guru give me a hit on the head?

壬午年正月二十一日　
2002年3月4日　

21st of January, Year of RenWu
March 4, 2002