Records of the Transmission of the Lamp, Volume Eighteen

雙林用禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of Chan Master Yong of Shuanglin

婺州三峰印禪師

Chan Master Yin of Sanfeng, Wuzhou

上堂舉野狐話曰。不落不昧。誣人之罪。不昧不落。無繩自縛。可憐柳絮隨春風。有時自西還自東。

Ascending the hall he brought up the wild fox case and said, 'Not falling, not obscuring—that is to accuse a man falsely. Not obscuring, not falling—that is to bind oneself without a rope. Pitiable are the willow catkins that follow the spring wind; sometimes they go from west and again from east.'

大溈行禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of Chan Master Xing of Dawei

常德府德山子涓禪師

Chan Master Zijuan of Deshan, Changdefu

潼川人也。上堂。見見之時。見非是見。見猶離見。見不能及。遂喝曰。鯨吞海水盡。露出珊瑚枝。眾中忽有箇衲僧出來道。長老休寐語。卻許伊具一隻眼。上堂。橫按拄杖曰。一二三四五六七。七六五四三二一。循環逆順數將來。數到未來無盡日。因七見一。因一亡七。踏破太虗空。鐵牛也汗出。絕氣息。無蹤跡。擲拄杖曰。更須放下這箇。始是參學事畢。上堂。拈拄杖曰。有時奪人不奪境。拄杖子七縱八橫。有時奪境不奪人。山僧七顛八倒。有時人境兩俱奪。拄杖子與山僧削跡吞聲。有時人境俱不奪。卓拄杖曰。伴我行千里。𢹂君過萬山。忽然撞著臨濟大師時如何。喝曰。未明心地印。難透祖師關。

He was a man of Tongchuan. Ascending the hall: 'At the time of seeing, the seeing is not seeing; seeing still departs from seeing, and seeing cannot reach it.' Then he gave a shout and said, 'The whale swallows all the sea water and reveals the coral branch. If a patch-robed monk in the assembly suddenly comes forward and says, 'Elder, stop talking in your sleep,' he may be allowed to have one eye.' Ascending the hall, he held his staff crosswise and said, 'One, two, three, four, five, six, seven; seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Counting them in cycle, forward and back, one counts to the endless day of the future. Because of seven one sees one; because of one seven perishes. Trampling through the great void, even the iron ox sweats. Breath cut off, no trace.' He threw down the staff and said, 'You must further put this down, and only then is the matter of study finished.' Ascending the hall, he picked up his staff and said, 'Sometimes I take away the man and not the object—then the staff goes seven ways across and eight ways about. Sometimes I take away the object and not the man—then this mountain monk is seven times upside down and eight times reversed. Sometimes I take away both man and object—then the staff and this mountain monk wipe out their traces and swallow their voices. Sometimes I take away neither man nor object.' He set down the staff and said, 'It accompanies me a thousand leagues; it carries you across ten thousand mountains.' Suddenly meeting Great Master Linji—what then?' He gave a shout and said, 'If the mind-ground's seal is not clear, it is hard to pass the Patriarch's barrier.'