The Five Lamps Meeting at the Source, Scroll Seven

金輪觀禪師法嗣

Dharma Heirs of Chan Master Guan of Jinlun

南嶽金輪和尚

The Reverend of Jinlun in Nanyue

僧問。如何是金輪第一句。師曰。鈍漢。問。如何是金輪一隻箭。師曰。過也。曰。臨機一箭。誰是當者。師曰。倒也。

A monk asked, 'What is the first phrase of Jinlun?' The Master said, 'Dullard.' Someone asked, 'What is Jinlun's one arrow?' The Master said, 'It has gone past.' He said, 'One arrow at the moment of opportunity — who is the one it hits?' The Master said, 'It has fallen.'

白兆圓禪師法嗣

Dharma Heirs of Chan Master Yuan of Baizhao

鼎州大龍山智洪弘濟禪師

Chan Master Zhihong Hongji of Dalong Mountain in Dingzhou

僧問。如何是佛。師曰。即汝便是。曰。如何領會。師曰。更嫌缽盂無柄那。問。如何是微妙。師曰。風送水聲來枕畔。月移山影到床前。問。如何是極則處。師曰。懊惱三春月。不及九秋光。問。色身敗壞。如何是堅固法身。師曰。山花開似錦。㵎水湛如藍。

A monk asked, 'What is the Buddha?' The Master said, 'You are it.' He said, 'How does one understand it?' The Master said, 'Do you still dislike that the alms bowl has no handle?' Someone asked, 'What is the subtle and wondrous?' The Master said, 'The wind brings the sound of water to the pillow's edge; the moon moves the mountain's shadow to the bedside.' Someone asked, 'What is the ultimate place?' The Master said, 'The vexing moon of the three springs is not equal to the light of the ninth autumn.' Someone asked, 'When the form body decays, what is the indestructible dharma body?' The Master said, 'Mountain flowers bloom like brocade; the ravine stream is clear as blue.'

襄州白馬山行靄禪師

Chan Master Xing'ai of White Horse Mountain in Xiangzhou

僧問。如何是清淨法身。師曰。井底蝦蟇吞卻月。問。如何是白馬正眼。師曰。面南看北斗。

A monk asked, 'What is the pure dharma body?' The Master said, 'A frog at the bottom of the well swallows the moon.' Someone asked, 'What is the true eye of White Horse?' The Master said, 'Facing south, look at the Dipper.'

安州白兆竺乾院懷楚禪師

Chan Master Huaichu of Zhuqian Monastery in Baizhao, Anzhou

僧問。如何是句句須行玄路。師曰。㳂路直到湖南。問。如何是師子兒。師曰。德山嗣龍潭。問。如何是和尚為人一句。師曰。與汝素無冤讐。一句元在這裡。曰。未審在甚麼方所。師曰。這鈍漢。

A monk asked, 'What is it to make every phrase walk the mysterious road?' The Master said, 'Follow the road straight to Hunan.' Someone asked, 'What is the lion's cub?' The Master said, 'Deshan succeeds Longtan.' Someone asked, 'What is the Reverend's one phrase for the sake of others?' The Master said, 'I have never had any grievance with you. The one phrase is originally right here.' He said, 'I wonder in what place it is?' The Master said, 'You dullard.'

蘄州四祖山清皎禪師

Chan Master Qingjiao of Fourth Ancestor Mountain in Qizhou

福州王氏子。僧問。師唱誰家曲。宗風嗣阿誰。師曰。楷師巖畔祥雲起。寶壽峰前震法雷。臨終遺偈曰。吾年八十八。滿頭垂白髮。顒顒鎮雙峰。明明千江月。黃梅揚祖教。白兆承宗訣。日日告兒孫。勿令有斷絕。

He was a son of the Wang family of Fuzhou. A monk asked, 'Whose song does the Master sing, and whose lineage does his school continue?' The Master said, 'Auspicious clouds rise beside Master Kai's rock; the Dharma thunder rolls before Baoshou Peak.' At the end of his life he left a verse: 'I am eighty-eight years old, my head covered with white hair. Solemnly I guard the twin peaks; clearly the moon on a thousand rivers. Huangmei spread the Ancestor's teaching, Baizhao received the lineage's secret. Day by day I tell my sons and grandsons: do not let it be cut off.'

蘄州三角山志操禪師

Chan Master Zhicao of Sanjiao Mountain in Qizhou

僧問。教法甚多。宗歸一貫。和尚為甚麼說得許多周由者也。師曰。為你周由者也。曰。請和尚即古即今。師以手敲繩床。

A monk asked, 'The teachings are very many, but the school returns to one thread. Why does the Reverend speak of so many complications?' The Master said, 'Because of your complications.' He said, 'Please, Master, be both ancient and present.' The Master rapped the corded chair with his hand.

晉州興教師普禪師

Chan Master Shishipu of Xingjiao in Jinzhou

僧問。盈龍宮溢海藏真詮即不問。如何是教外別傳底法。師曰。眼裡耳裡鼻裡。曰。祇此便是否。師曰。是甚麼。僧便喝。師亦喝。問。僧近離甚處。曰。下寨。師曰。還逢著賊麼。曰。今日捉下。師曰。放汝三十棒。

A monk asked, 'I do not ask about the true exposition that fills the dragon palace and overflows the sea treasury — what is the Dharma transmitted separately outside the teachings?' The Master said, 'In the eye, in the ear, in the nose.' He said, 'Is this it?' The Master said, 'What is it?' The monk shouted. The Master also shouted. He asked the monk, 'Where have you just come from?' He said, 'From breaking camp.' The Master said, 'Did you meet any bandits?' He said, 'I have caught them today.' The Master said, 'I let you off thirty blows.'

蘄州三角山真鑑禪師

Chan Master Zhenjian of Sanjiao Mountain in Qizhou

僧問。師唱誰家曲。宗風嗣阿誰。師曰。忽然行正令。便見下堂堦。

A monk asked, 'Whose song does the Master sing, and whose lineage does his school continue?' The Master said, 'When the correct command is suddenly carried out, at once you see the steps descending from the hall.'

郢州太陽山行沖禪師

Chan Master Xingchong of Taiyang Mountain in Yingzhou

僧問。如何是無盡藏。師良久。僧無語。師曰。近前來。僧才近前。師曰。去。

A monk asked, 'What is the inexhaustible treasury?' The Master was silent a long while. The monk was speechless. The Master said, 'Come closer.' The monk had just come closer, and the Master said, 'Go.'

青原下八世

The eighth generation below Qingyuan

黃龍機禪師法嗣

Dharma Heirs of Chan Master Ji of Huanglong

洛京紫葢善沼禪師

Chan Master Shanzhao of Zikai in Luojing

僧問。死中得活時如何。師曰。抱鎌刮骨熏天地。炮烈棺中求託生。問。才生便死時如何。師曰。賴得覺疾。

A monk asked, 'What is it like to come to life within death?' The Master said, 'Holding a sickle and scraping the bone, scorching heaven and earth; in the blazing coffin, seeking rebirth.' Someone asked, 'What is it like to be born and at once die?' The Master said, 'Thankfully the awakening is swift.'

眉州黃龍繼達禪師

Chan Master Jida of Huanglong in Meizhou

僧問。如何是衲。師曰。針去線不回。曰。如何是帔。師曰。橫鋪四世界。竪葢一乾坤。曰。道滿到來時如何。師曰。要羹與羹。要飯與飯。問。黃龍出世．金翅鳥滿空飛時如何。師曰。問汝金翅鳥。還得飽也無。

A monk asked, 'What is the robe?' The Master said, 'The needle goes and the thread does not return.' He said, 'What is the shawl?' The Master said, 'Spread sideways it covers the four worlds; laid down it covers one heaven and earth.' He said, 'What about when the Way is full and one arrives?' The Master said, 'If you want soup, give you soup; if you want rice, give you rice.' Someone asked, 'When Huanglong comes into the world and the golden-winged birds fill the sky in flight, what then?' The Master said, 'I ask you, golden-winged bird: are you full or not?'

棗樹和尚

The Reverend of the Jujube Tree

第二世住。問僧。發足甚處。曰。閩中。師曰。俊哉。曰。謝師指示。師曰。屈哉。僧作禮。師曰。我與麼道。落在甚麼處。僧無語。師曰。彼自無瘡。勿傷之也。僧參。師乃問。未到這裡時。在甚處安身立命。僧叉手近前。師亦叉手近前。相竝而立。僧曰。某甲未到此時。和尚與誰竝立。師指背後曰。莫是伊麼。僧無對。師曰。不獨自謾。兼謾老僧。僧作禮。師曰。正是自謾。僧鉏地次。見師來乃不審。師曰。見阿誰了便不審。曰。見師不問訊。禮式不全。問曰。卻是孤負老僧。其僧歸舉似首座曰。和尚近日可畏。座曰。作麼生。僧舉前語。座曰。和尚近日可謂為人切。師聞乃打首座七棒。座曰。某甲恁麼道。未有過在。亂打作麼。師曰。枉吃我多少鹽醬。又打七棒。僧辭。師乃問。若到諸方。有人問你老僧此間法道。作麼生祇對。曰。待問即道。師曰。何處有無口底佛。曰。祇這也還難。師竪拂子曰。還見麼。曰。何處有無眼底佛。師曰。祇這也還難。僧遶禪床一匝而出。師曰。善能祇對。僧便喝。師曰。老僧不識子。曰。用識作麼。師敲禪床三下。

He was the second generation to reside there. He asked a monk, 'Where did you set out from?' He said, 'From Minzhong.' The Master said, 'How excellent.' He said, 'Thank you, Master, for pointing it out.' The Master said, 'How unfair.' The monk bowed. The Master said, 'When I speak like this, where does it fall?' The monk was silent. The Master said, 'He himself has no sore; do not wound him.' A monk came to study. The Master then asked, 'Before you came here, where did you settle your body and establish your life?' The monk clasped his hands and came forward. The Master also clasped his hands and came forward, and they stood side by side. The monk said, 'Before I came here, with whom was the Reverend standing side by side?' The Master pointed behind him and said, 'Is it not him?' The monk had no reply. The Master said, 'You do not deceive yourself alone; you deceive this old monk as well.' The monk bowed. The Master said, 'This is precisely deceiving yourself.' A monk was hoeing the ground and saw the Master coming, and did not greet him. The Master said, 'Having seen whom, do you not greet him?' He said, 'Seeing the Master and not inquiring after him — the form of courtesy is incomplete.' The Master said, 'Then you have betrayed this old monk.' That monk went back and told the prior, 'The Reverend has lately become fearsome.' The prior said, 'How so?' The monk brought up the earlier words. The prior said, 'The Reverend has lately been exceedingly earnest for others.' The Master heard of it and gave the prior seven blows. The prior said, 'What I said had no fault. Why beat me at random?' The Master said, 'You have eaten so much of my salt and sauce for nothing.' He beat him seven more blows. A monk took his leave. The Master then asked, 'If you go to all quarters and someone asks you about this old monk's Dharma Way here, how will you answer?' He said, 'When asked, I will speak.' The Master said, 'Where is there a Buddha without a mouth?' He said, 'Even this is still hard.' The Master held up his whisk and said, 'Do you see?' He said, 'Where is there a Buddha without eyes?' The Master said, 'Even this is still hard.' The monk circled the corded chair once and went out. The Master said, 'You answer well.' The monk shouted. The Master said, 'This old monk does not know you.' He said, 'What use is knowing?' The Master rapped the corded chair three times.

興元府玄都山澄禪師

Chan Master Cheng of Xuandu Mountain in Xingyuan Prefecture

僧問。喜得趨方丈。家風事若何。師曰。西風開曉露。明月正當天。曰。如何拯濟。師曰。金鷄樓上一下皷。問。如何是沙門行。師曰。一切不如。

A monk asked, 'Glad to have hurried to the abbot's quarters — how are the matters of the family style?' The Master said, 'The west wind opens the morning dew; the bright moon is right overhead.' He said, 'How does one rescue and save?' The Master said, 'One drumbeat on the golden rooster tower.' Someone asked, 'What is the practice of a monk?' The Master said, 'Everything is not as good.'

嘉州黑水和尚

The Reverend of Black Water in Jiazhou

初參黃龍。便問。雪覆蘆花時如何。龍曰。猛烈。師曰。不猛烈。龍又曰。猛烈。師又曰。不猛烈。龍便打。師於此有省。即便禮拜。

When he first studied under Huanglong, he at once asked, 'What is it like when snow covers the reed flowers?' Huanglong said, 'Fierce.' The Master said, 'Not fierce.' Huanglong again said, 'Fierce.' The Master again said, 'Not fierce.' Huanglong then beat him. At this the Master had an awakening and bowed at once.

鄂州黃龍智顋禪師

Chan Master Zhisai of Huanglong in Ezhou

僧問。如何是諸佛之本源。師曰。即此一問是何源。曰。恁麼則諸佛無異去也。師曰。延平劒已成龍去。猶有刻舟求底人。

A monk asked, 'What is the source of the Buddhas?' The Master said, 'What is the source of this very question?' He said, 'If so, then the Buddhas are without difference.' The Master said, 'The Yanping sword has already become a dragon and gone; there are still men who carve the boat to seek it.'

眉州昌福達禪師

Chan Master Dada of Changfu in Meizhou

僧問。學人來問師則對。不問時師意如何。師曰。謝師兄指示。問。本來則不問。如何是今日事。師曰。師兄這問大好。曰。學人不會時如何。師曰。謾得即得。問。國有寶刀。誰人得見。師曰。師兄遠來不易。曰。此刀作何形狀。師曰。要也道。不要也道。曰。請師道。師曰。難逢難遇。問。石牛水上臥時如何。師曰。異中還有異。妄計不浮沉。曰。便恁麼去時如何。師曰。翅天日落。把土成金。

A monk asked, 'When the student comes and asks, the master answers; when he does not ask, what is the master's meaning?' The master said, 'Thank you, senior, for pointing it out.' A monk asked, 'The original I do not ask; what is the matter of today?' The master said, 'That question of yours is very good, senior.' He said, 'What if the student does not understand?' The master said, 'If you can be deceived, then fine.' A monk asked, 'The state has a precious sword; who may see it?' The master said, 'Senior, it was not easy to come from afar.' He said, 'What shape is this sword?' The master said, 'Whether you want it said or not, it must be said.' He said, 'Please, master, say it.' The master said, 'Hard to meet, hard to encounter.' A monk asked, 'What about when a stone ox lies down on the water?' The master said, 'Within the strange there is more strange; false reckoning neither floats nor sinks.' He said, 'What about going on like that?' The master said, 'Wings span the sky as the sun sets, and earth is turned to gold.'