The Five Lamps Meeting at the Source, Scroll Five

因有人請灌頂三藏供養。敷坐訖。師乃就彼位坐。時有雲涉座主問曰。和尚甚麼年行道。師曰。座主近前來。涉近前。師曰。祇如憍陳如是甚麼年行道。涉茫然。師喝曰。這尿床鬼。問。和尚院內人何太少。定水院人何太多。師曰。草深多野鹿。巖高獬豸稀。問。如何是無問而自答。師曰。松韻琴聲響。

Someone once invited the Tripitaka Master of Consecration to receive offerings. When the seat had been spread, the master went and sat in that place. At the time the lecturer Yunshe asked: 'In what year did the master begin to practise the Way?' The master said: 'Lecturer, come closer.' She stepped forward. The master said: 'What year did Kaundinya begin to practise the Way?' She was blank. The master shouted: 'You bed-wetting ghost!' [A monk] asked: 'Why are there so few people in the master's monastery, and so many in the Monastery of Still Water?' The master said: 'Where the grass is deep there are many wild deer; where the cliff is high the shanyang goat is rare.' [A monk] asked: 'What is it to answer oneself without being asked?' The master said: 'The sound of wind in the pines is the sound of a lute.'

嘉州白水禪師

Chan Master Baishui of Jiazhou

僧問。如何是西來意。師曰。四溟無窟宅。一滴潤乾坤。問。曹溪一路。合譚何事。師曰。㵎松千載鶴來聚。月中香桂鳳凰歸。問。如何是此經。師曰。拋梭石女遼空響。海底泥牛夜呌頻。

A monk asked: 'What is the meaning of his coming from the West?' The master said: 'The four seas have no dwelling place; a single drop moistens heaven and earth.' [The monk] asked: 'On the single road of Caoxi, what matter should be discussed?' The master said: 'A thousand-year crane gathers at the ravine pine; the phoenix returns to the fragrant cassia in the moon.' [The monk] asked: 'What is this sutra?' The master said: 'A stone girl throws the shuttle, and the far sky resounds; the mud ox at the bottom of the sea lows without cease by night.'

鳳翔府天葢山幽禪師

Chan Master You of Mount Tiangai in Fengxiang Prefecture

僧問。如何是天葢水。師曰。四海滂沲。不犯涓滴。問。學人擬看經時如何。師曰。既是大商。何求小利。問。對境不動時如何。師曰。邊方雖有令。不是太平年。

A monk asked: 'What is the water of Tiangai?' The master said: 'The four seas pour down, yet not a drop is spilled.' [The monk] asked: 'What about when a student intends to read the sutras?' The master said: 'Since you are a great merchant, why seek a small profit?' [The monk] asked: 'What about when one does not move in the face of circumstances?' The master said: 'Though the frontier has its ordinances, this is no year of great peace.'

清平遵禪師法嗣

Heirs of Chan Master Qingping Zun

蘄州三角山令珪禪師

Chan Master Linggui of Mount Sanjiao in Qizhou

初參清平。平問。來作麼。師曰。來禮拜。平曰。禮拜阿誰。師曰。特來禮拜和尚。平咄曰。這鈍根阿師。師乃禮拜。平以手斫師頸一下。從此領旨。住後。僧問。如何是佛。師曰。明日來。向汝道。如今道不得。

He first called on Qingping. Ping asked: 'What have you come for?' The master said: 'I have come to bow.' Ping said: 'To whom do you bow?' The master said: 'I came especially to bow to the master.' Ping shouted: 'This dull-rooted teacher!' The master then bowed. Ping chopped him once on the neck with his hand. From this he grasped the purport. After he had taken up residence, a monk asked: 'What is the Buddha?' The master said: 'Come tomorrow and I will tell you. As for today, I cannot say it.'

投子同禪師法嗣

Heirs of Chan Master Touzi Tong

投子感溫禪師

Chan Master Ganwen of Touzi

僧問。師登寶座。接示何人。師曰。如月赴千溪。曰。恁麼則滿地不虧也。師曰。莫恁麼道。問。父不投。為甚麼卻投子。師曰。豈是別人屋裡事。曰。父與子還屬功也無。師曰。不屬。曰。不屬功底如何。師曰。父子各自脫。曰。為甚麼如此。師曰。汝與我會。師遊山見蟬蛻。侍者問曰。殻在這裡。蟬向甚麼處去也。師拈殻就耳畔搖三五下。作蟬聲。侍者於是開悟。

A monk asked: 'The master has mounted the jewelled seat — to whom does he show himself?' The master said: 'Like the moon going out to a thousand streams.' [The monk] said: 'Then it loses nothing anywhere on the ground.' The master said: 'Do not talk like that.' [A monk] asked: 'The father did not take refuge; why then did he go to Touzi, the Child?' The master said: 'Is this a matter for another man's house?' [The monk] said: 'Do father and son still belong to effort?' The master said: 'They do not belong.' [The monk] said: 'What is it like when they do not belong to effort?' The master said: 'Father and son each take their own release.' [The monk] said: 'Why is it so?' The master said: 'You and I will meet.' Wandering in the hills the master saw a cicada's cast skin. The attendant asked: 'The shell is here — where has the cicada gone?' The master picked up the shell, shook it at his ear three or four times, and made the sound of a cicada. The attendant was thereby awakened.

福州牛頭微禪師

Chan Master Wei of Mount Niutou in Fuzhou

上堂。三世諸佛。用一點伎倆不得。天下老師口似匾擔。諸人作麼生。大不容易。除非知有。餘莫能知。僧問。如何是和尚家風。師曰。山畬脫粟飯。野菜澹黃虀。曰。忽遇上客來。又作麼生。師曰。吃即從君吃。不吃任東西。問。不問驪龍頷下珠。如何識得家中寶。師曰。忙中爭得作閑人。

He ascended the hall: 'The Buddhas of the three ages cannot use a single trick. The mouths of the teachers under heaven are like carrying poles. What will you people do? It is no easy matter. Unless you know that it is, no one else can know it.' A monk asked: 'What is the master's family style?' The master said: 'Hulled rice from the hillside field, and wild greens with thin yellow pickles.' [The monk] said: 'Suppose a distinguished guest arrives — what then?' The master said: 'If you eat, eat as you please; if you do not eat, go wherever you like.' [A monk] asked: 'Without asking about the pearl under the black dragon's chin, how does one recognize the treasure in the house?' The master said: 'How can one be an idle man while struggling in the midst of busyness?'

西川青城香山澄照禪師

Chan Master Chengzhao of Mount Xiang in Qingcheng, Xichuan

僧問。諸佛有難。向火燄裡藏身。未審衲僧有難。向甚麼處藏身。師曰。水精甕裡著波斯。問。如何是初生月。師曰。太半人不見。

A monk asked: 'When the Buddhas are in trouble they hide themselves in the flames. I wonder where a patch-robed monk hides when he is in trouble?' The master said: 'Put a Persian in a crystal jar.' [The monk] asked: 'What is the new moon?' The master said: 'Most people do not see it.'

陝府天福禪師

Chan Master Tianfu of Shanfu

僧問。如何是佛法大意。師曰。黃河無滴水。華嶽總平沈。

A monk asked: 'What is the great meaning of the Buddha-dharma?' The master said: 'The Yellow River has not a drop of water; Mount Hua has sunk flat altogether.'

興元府中梁山遵古禪師

Chan Master Zungu of Mount Zhongliang in Xingyuan Prefecture

僧問。空劫無人能問法。即今有問法何安。師曰。大悲菩薩甕裡坐。問。如何是祖師西來意。師曰。道士擔漏巵。

A monk asked: 'In the empty kalpa no one could ask about the dharma; now that there is one who asks, where does the dharma rest?' The master said: 'The Bodhisattva of Great Compassion sits inside a jar.' [The monk] asked: 'What is the meaning of the patriarch's coming from the West?' The master said: 'A Daoist carrying a leaky cup.'

襄州谷隱禪師

Chan Master Guyin of Xiangzhou

僧問。如何是不觸白雲機。師曰。鶴帶鵶顏。浮生不棄。

A monk asked: 'What is the device that does not touch the white clouds?' The master said: 'A crane with a crow's face — the floating life is not abandoned.'

安州九嵕山禪師

Chan Master of Mount Jiuzong in Anzhou

僧問。遠聞九嵕。及乎到來。祇見一嵕。師曰。闍黎祇見一嵕。不見九嵕。曰。如何是九嵕。師曰。水急浪花驪。

A monk asked: 'I heard of Jiuzong from afar, but now that I have arrived I see only one zong.' The master said: 'The Acharya sees only one zong, not the nine zongs.' [The monk] said: 'What are the nine zongs?' The master said: 'Where the water runs swift, the spray is like a black horse.'

幽州盤山禪師(二世)

Chan Master of Mount Pan in Youzhou, the second generation

僧問。如何出得三界。師曰。在裡頭來多少時邪。曰。如何出得。師曰。青山不礙白雲飛。問。承教有言。如化人煩惱。如石女兒。此理如何。師曰。闍黎直如石女兒去。

A monk asked: 'How does one get out of the three realms?' The master said: 'How long have you been inside?' [The monk] said: 'How does one get out?' The master said: 'The green hills do not hinder the white clouds from flying.' [The monk] asked: 'The teaching says that they are like the afflictions of a conjured man, like a barren woman's child. What does this principle mean?' The master said: 'Acharya, just go and be like a barren woman's child.'

九嵕敬慧禪師

Chan Master Jinghui of Jiuzong

僧問。解脫深坑。如何過得。師曰。不求過。曰。如何過得。師曰。求過亦非。

A monk asked: 'How does one pass over the deep pit of liberation?' The master said: 'Do not seek to pass over.' [The monk] said: 'How then does one pass over?' The master said: 'To seek to pass over is also wrong.'

東京觀音院巖俊禪師者

Chan Master Yanjun of Guanyin Monastery in the Eastern Capital

邢臺廉氏子。初參祖席。徧歷衡．廬．岷．蜀。甞經鳳林深谷。欻覩珍寶發現。同侶相顧。意將取之。師曰。古人鉏園。觸黃金若瓦礫。待吾菅覆頂。須此供四方僧。言訖捨去。謁投子。子問。昨夜宿何處。師曰。不動道場。子曰。既言不動。曷由至此。師曰。至此豈是動邪。子曰。元來宿不著處。投子默許之。尋住觀音。眾常數百。周高祖．世宗二帝潛隱時。每登方丈。必施禮。及即位。特賜紫衣。署淨戒大師。示寂垂誡門人訖。怡顏合掌而逝。

He was a son of the Lian family of Xingtai. He first called at the patriarchal seats, travelling through Heng, Lu, Min, and Shu. Once he was passing through the deep valley of Fenglin when suddenly he came upon a treasure revealed. His companions looked at one another, meaning to take it. The master said: 'The ancients, hoeing the garden, touched gold as if it were broken tiles. Wait until I have thatch over my head — I shall need this to supply the monks of the four quarters.' Having said this, he left it and went on. He paid homage to Touzi. Zi asked: 'Where did you lodge last night?' The master said: 'In the unmoving bodhimanda.' Zi said: 'If you say unmoving, how did you get here?' The master said: 'Could coming here be movement?' Zi said: 'So you lodged where there is no lodging.' Touzi silently approved him. Soon he resided at Guanyin, and his assembly often numbered several hundred. When Emperor Gaozu of Zhou and Emperor Shizong were still in hiding, each time they climbed to his abbot's quarters they invariably paid him their respects. When they came to the throne they specially bestowed on him a purple robe and the title Master of Pure Precepts. When the time of his death came, after admonishing his disciples he passed away with a serene face and joined palms.

濠州思明禪師

Chan Master Siming of Haozhou

在眾時。僧問。如何是上座沙彌童行。師曰。諾。問。如何是清淨法身。師曰。屎裡蛆兒。頭出頭沒。

While he was among the assembly, a monk asked: 'What is the senior monk, the novice, and the postulant?' The master said: 'Yes?' [The monk] asked: 'What is the pure dharmakaya?' The master said: 'A maggot in dung, its head up and its head down.'

鳳翔府招福禪師

Chan Master Zhaofu of Fengxiang Prefecture

僧問。東牙烏牙皆出隊。和尚為甚麼不出隊。師曰。住持各不同。闍黎爭得怪。

A monk asked: 'Both East Fang and Wu Fang have gone out with the ranks — why does the master not go out with the ranks?' The master said: 'Each abbot is different; how can you blame me, Acharya?'

青原下六世

Sixth generation below Qingyuan

大光誨禪師法嗣

Heirs of Chan Master Daguang Hui

潭州谷山有緣禪師

Chan Master Youyuan of Mount Gu in Tanzhou