The Five Lamps Meeting at the Source, Scroll Seven

潭州雲蓋用清禪師

Chan Master Yungai Yongqing of Tanzhou

河州趙氏子。僧問。有一人在萬丈井底。如何出得。師曰。且喜得相見。曰。恁麼則穿雲透月去也。師曰。三十三天事。作麼生。僧無對。師曰。謾語作麼。問。如何是雲葢境。師曰。門外三泉井。曰。如何是境中人。師曰。童行仔子。有頌示眾曰。雲葢鎻口訣。擬議皆腦裂。拍手趂虗空。雲露西山月。僧問。如何是鎻口訣。師曰。徧天徧地。曰。恁麼則石人點頭。露柱拍手去也。師曰。一缾淨水一爐香。曰。此猶是井底蝦蟇。師曰。勞煩大眾。師常節飲食。隨眾二時。但展缽而已。或逾年月。亦不調練服餌。無妨作務。有請必開。即便飽食而亡拘執。至道二年四月二日。示疾而逝。

He was a son of the Zhao family of Hezhou. A monk asked: 'There is a man at the bottom of a ten-thousand-fathom well; how can he get out?' The master said: 'I am glad to meet you.' The monk said: 'Then he pierces the clouds and passes through the moon.' The master said: 'What about the matter of the thirty-three heavens?' The monk had no reply. The master said: 'Why speak deceptively?' The monk asked: 'What is the realm of Yungai?' The master said: 'The three-spring well outside the gate.' The monk said: 'What of the person within the realm?' The master said: 'A novice boy.' He had a verse to show the assembly: 'The lock-mouth formula of Yungai — whoever deliberates splits his skull. Clap your hands and chase the void; the clouds reveal the western mountain moon.' A monk asked: 'What is the lock-mouth formula?' The master said: 'Everywhere in heaven and earth.' The monk said: 'Then the stone man nods and the pillar claps its hands.' The master said: 'One bottle of pure water, one censer of incense.' The monk said: 'That is still a frog at the bottom of the well.' The master said: 'Much trouble to the assembly.' The master always ate sparingly, and with the assembly at the two mealtimes he merely opened his bowl. Sometimes for over a month he would not prepare or take tonics, yet it did not hinder his work. When asked he would always open up, and would at once eat his fill without any attachment. On the second day of the fourth month in the second year of Zhidao, he showed signs of illness and passed away.

雲居錫禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of Chan Master Yunju Xi

台州般若從進禪師

Chan Master Bore Congjin of Taizhou

僧問。古㵎寒泉時如何。師曰。切忌飲著。曰。飲著又如何。師曰。喪卻汝性命。

A monk asked: 'What of the cold spring in the ancient ravine?' The master said: 'Above all, do not drink it.' The monk said: 'What if one drinks it?' The master said: 'It will take your life.'

越州清化志超禪師

Chan Master Qinghua Zhichao of Yuezhou

僧問。如何是佛。師曰。汝是甚麼人。曰。莫便是也無。師曰。是即沒交涉。

A monk asked: 'What is the Buddha?' The master said: 'What sort of person are you?' The monk said: 'Is it not just this?' The master said: 'If it is, then there is no connection.'

青原下十一世

The eleventh generation below Qingyuan

長壽彥禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of Chan Master Changshou Yan

蘇州長壽法齊禪師

Chan Master Changshou Faqi of Suzhou

婺州人。始講明門。因明二論。尋置遊方。受心印於廣法禪師。節使錢仁奉禮。請繼廣法住持。開堂日。有百法座主問。令公請命。四眾雲臻。向上宗乘。請師舉唱。師曰。百法明門論。曰。畢竟作麼生。師曰。一切法無我。問。城東老母與佛同生。為甚麼卻不見佛。師曰。不見即道。曰。恁麼則見去也。師曰。城東老母與佛同生。

He was a man of Wuzhou. He first lectured on the two treatises, the Mingmen and the Hetuvidya. Then he set out to travel, and received the mind seal from Chan Master Guangfa. The commissioner Qian Renfeng respectfully invited him to succeed Guangfa as abbot. On the day he opened the hall, a lecturer on the Hundred Dharmas asked: 'The lord has requested your life, and the four assemblies gather like clouds. The ancestral vehicle upward — pray, Master, proclaim it.' The master said: 'The Treatise on the Gate of Clarifying the Hundred Dharmas.' The monk said: 'After all, what is it?' The master said: 'All dharmas are without self.' The monk asked: 'The old woman east of the city was born at the same time as the Buddha; why did she not see the Buddha?' The master said: 'Not seeing is the way.' The monk said: 'Then she has seen.' The master said: 'The old woman east of the city was born at the same time as the Buddha.'

雲居齊禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of Chan Master Yunju Qi

南康雲居契瓌禪師

Chan Master Yunju Qi Kuai of Nankang

僧問。路逢死蛇莫打殺。無底籃子盛將歸。未審師還受也無。師曰。你甚麼處得來。曰。恁麼則不虗施也。師曰。卻且提取去。問。如何是佛。師曰。讚歎不及。曰。莫祇這箇便是麼。師曰。不令人讚歎。

A monk asked: 'Meeting a dead snake on the road, do not strike it dead; carry it home in a bottomless basket. I wonder whether the Master accepts it or not?' The master said: 'Where did you get that from?' The monk said: 'Then nothing has been bestowed in vain.' The master said: 'Take it away with you.' The monk asked: 'What is the Buddha?' The master said: 'Praise cannot reach him.' The monk said: 'Is it not just this?' The master said: 'He does not let people praise him.'

杭州靈隱文勝慈濟禪師

Chan Master Lingyin Wensheng Ciji of Hangzhou

僧問。古鑑未磨時如何。師曰。古鑑。曰。磨後如何。師曰。古鑑。曰。未審分不分。師曰。更照看。問。如何是和尚家風。師曰。莫訝荒疎。曰。忽遇客來作麼生。師曰。吃茶去。

A monk asked: 'What of the ancient mirror before it is polished?' The master said: 'The ancient mirror.' The monk said: 'What of after it is polished?' The master said: 'The ancient mirror.' The monk said: 'I wonder whether it distinguishes or not?' The master said: 'Shine on it again.' The monk asked: 'What is the Master's family style?' The master said: 'Do not be surprised that it is wild and sparse.' The monk said: 'What if a guest suddenly comes?' The master said: 'Go drink tea.'

明州瑞巖義海禪師

Chan Master Ruiyan Yihai of Mingzhou

霅川人也。造雲居法席。居問。甚麼物恁麼來。師於言下大悟。遂有頌曰。雲居甚麼物。問著頭恍惚。直下便承當。猶是生埋沒。出世住報本。僧問。如何是祖師西來意。師曰。若到諸方。但道報本不解答話。問。如何是和尚家風。師曰。無忌諱。曰。忽遇觸忤。又且如何。師曰。不解作客。勞煩主人。問。釋迦掩室於摩竭。淨名杜口於毗耶。未審如何示眾。師曰。汝不欲我開談。曰。未曉師機。師曰。且退。問。如何是無位真人。師曰。這裡無安排你處。

He was a man of Zhachuan. He went to Yunju's dharma seat. Yunju asked: 'What thing comes like this?' At these words the master was greatly awakened, and at once had a verse: 'Yunju asked what thing — hearing it, my head went blank. To take it on directly is still to be buried alive.' He went out into the world and resided at Baoben. A monk asked: 'What is the meaning of the patriarch's coming from the west?' The master said: 'If you go to other quarters, just say that Baoben does not know how to answer questions.' The monk asked: 'What is the Master's family style?' The master said: 'No taboos.' The monk said: 'What if one suddenly gives offense?' The master said: 'Not knowing how to be a guest, I trouble the host.' The monk asked: 'Shakyamuni kept silent at Magadha; Vimalakirti sealed his mouth at Vaishali. I wonder how you show the assembly?' The master said: 'You do not want me to open my mouth.' The monk said: 'I do not understand the Master's working.' The master said: 'Withdraw for now.' The monk asked: 'What is the true person without rank?' The master said: 'There is no place here to arrange you.'

明州廣慧志全禪師

Chan Master Guanghui Zhiquan of Mingzhou

上堂。僧問。如何是衲僧本分事。師曰。你莫鈍置我。僧禮拜。師曰。卻是大眾鈍置闍黎。便下座。問。賊不打貧兒家時如何。師曰。說向人也不信。僧曰。恁麼則禮拜而退。師曰。得箇甚麼。

He mounted the hall. A monk asked: 'What is the proper business of a patch-robed monk?' The master said: 'Do not dull me.' The monk bowed. The master said: 'It is rather the assembly that dulls you, Acharya.' Then he descended from the seat. The monk asked: 'What of when a thief does not rob a poor man's house?' The master said: 'If you tell it to someone, he will not believe it either.' The monk said: 'Then I bow and withdraw.' The master said: 'What have you got?'

明州大梅保福居煦禪師

Chan Master Damei Baofu Juxu of Mingzhou

僧問。古人面壁。意旨如何。師曰。但恁麼會。曰。未審如何領會。師曰。禮拜著。

A monk asked: 'What is the meaning of the ancients facing the wall?' The master said: 'Just understand it like this.' The monk said: 'I wonder how to understand it?' The master said: 'Bow.'

處州南明惟宿禪師

Chan Master Nanming Weisu of Chuzhou

僧問。法法不隱藏。古今常顯露。如何是顯露底法。師曰。見示大眾。曰。恁麼則學人謹退也。師曰。知過必改。

A monk asked: 'No dharma is concealed; from ancient times to the present it is ever revealed. What is the revealed dharma?' The master said: 'I show it to the great assembly.' The monk said: 'Then this student respectfully withdraws.' The master said: 'Knowing one's fault, one must change.'

荊門軍清溪清禪師

Chan Master Qingxi Qing of Jingmen Prefecture

僧問。古路坦然。如何履踐。曰。你是行腳僧。

A monk asked: 'The ancient road is level and plain; how does one walk it?' The master said: 'You are a pilgrim monk.'

支提隆禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of Chan Master Zhiti Long

杭州靈隱玄本禪師

Chan Master Lingyin Xuanben of Hangzhou

僧問。蚌含未剖時如何。師曰。光從何來。問。臨濟入門便喝。德山入門便棒。此意如何。師曰。天晴不肯去。師見僧看經。乃問。看甚麼經。僧無語。乃示頌曰。看經不識經。徒勞損眼睛。欲得不損眼。分明識取經。

A monk asked: 'What of when the oyster holds its pearl and has not yet opened?' The master said: 'Where does the light come from?' The monk asked: 'Linji shouted as soon as one entered the gate; Deshan struck as soon as one entered the gate. What does this mean?' The master said: 'The sky is clear and he will not go.' The master saw a monk reading a sutra and asked: 'What sutra are you reading?' The monk was speechless. Then he showed a verse: 'Reading the sutra without knowing the sutra, you wear out your eyes in vain. If you would not wear out your eyes, clearly know the sutra.'

羅漢林禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of Chan Master Luohan Lin

臨江軍慧力院紹珍禪師

Chan Master Huili Yuan Shaozhen of Linjiang Prefecture

僧問。金鷄未鳴時如何。師曰。是何時節。曰。鳴後如何。師曰。卻不知時。問。師子未出窟時如何。師曰。在那裡。曰。出窟後如何。師曰。且走。

A monk asked: 'What of the time before the golden rooster crows?' The master said: 'What season is it?' The monk said: 'What of after it crows?' The master said: 'Then I do not know the time.' The monk asked: 'What of when the lion has not yet left its den?' The master said: 'It is there.' The monk said: 'What of after it leaves the den?' The master said: 'Run for now.'

洪州大寧院慶𤧚禪師

Chan Master Daning Yuan Qingrong of Hongzhou

僧問。道泰不傳天子令。時人盡唱太平歌。未審師今意旨如何。師曰。山僧罪過。問。如何是佛。師曰。須彌山。上堂。生死涅槃。猶如昨夢。且道三世諸佛。釋迦老子有甚麼長處。雖然如是。莫錯會好。拍手一下。便下座。問。承古有言。東山西嶺青。未審意旨如何。師曰。東山西嶺青。雨下卻天晴。更問箇中意。鵓鳩生鷂鷹。

A monk asked: 'When the way is at peace, the son of heaven does not issue his commands, and the people of the time all sing songs of great peace. I wonder what the Master's meaning is today?' The master said: 'The mountain monk is at fault.' The monk asked: 'What is the Buddha?' The master said: 'Mount Sumeru.' He mounted the hall: 'Birth and death, nirvana, are like last night's dream. Tell me, what is the excellence of the buddhas of the three ages, of old man Shakyamuni? Even so, do not misunderstand.' He clapped his hands once and descended from the seat. A monk asked: 'The ancients had a saying: the eastern mountain, the western ridge, green. I wonder what the meaning is?' The master said: 'The eastern mountain, the western ridge, green; when the rain falls, the sky clears. If you ask further what the meaning is within, a dove hatches a sparrowhawk.'

功臣軻禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of Chan Master Gongchen Ke

蘇州堯峰顥暹禪師

Chan Master Yaofeng Haoxian of Suzhou