Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, Volume Twenty-Two

衡嶽南臺寺藏禪師。問遠遠投師請師一接。師曰。不隔戶。問如何是南臺境。師曰。松韻拂時石不點。孤峰山下壘難齊。曰如何是境中人。師曰。巖前栽野果接待往來賓。曰恁麼即謝供養。師曰。怎生滋味。問如何是法堂。師曰。無壁落。問不顧諸緣時如何師良久。

Chan Master Zang of Nantai Monastery in Hengyue. He asked, "From afar I have come to the Master; please, Master, give one reception." The Master said, "Not separated by a door." He asked, "What is the realm of Nantai?" The Master said, "When the sound of pines brushes by, the stone is not spotted; below the solitary peak, piled stones are hard to make even." He said, "What is the person in the realm?" The Master said, "Plant wild fruit before the cliff to receive the coming and going guests." He said, "If so, then I thank you for the offering." The Master said, "What sort of flavor is it?" He asked, "What is the dharma hall?" The Master said, "Without walls." He asked, "What is it like when one does not regard the various conditions?" The Master was silent for a long time.

幽州潭柘水從實禪師。僧問。如何是道。師曰。箇中無紫皂。曰如何是禪。師曰。不與白雲連。師問僧。作什麼來。曰親近來。師曰。任汝白雲朝嶽頂。爭奈青霄不展顏。

Chan Master Congshi of Tanzhe Spring, Youzhou. A monk asked, "What is the Way?" The Master said, "In it there is no purple or black." He said, "What is Chan?" The Master said, "It does not connect with white clouds." The Master asked a monk, "What have you come for?" He said, "I have come to draw near." The Master said, "Let your white clouds pay homage at the mountain peak; what can you do that the azure sky does not show its face?"

潭州雲蓋山證覺禪師。僧問。如何是和尚家風。師曰。四海不曾通。問如何是一塵含法界。師曰。通身體不圓。曰如何是九世剎那分。師曰。繁興不布彩。問如何是宗門中的的意。師曰。萬裡胡僧不入波瀾。

Chan Master Zhengjue of Yungai Mountain, Tanzhou. A monk asked, "What is the Master's family style?" The Master said, "The four seas have never been penetrated." He asked, "What is it when a single dust contains the dharma-realm?" The Master said, "The whole body is not round." He said, "What is the division of nine ages into a single thought-moment?" The Master said, "Flourishing abundance does not spread colors." He asked, "What is the precise meaning within the school?" The Master said, "A barbarian monk from ten thousand li does not enter the waves."

前廬山歸宗懷惲禪師法祠

Heir of the former Chan Master Huaiyun of Guizong, Mount Lu (the base text reads "fa ci").

歸宗寺弘章禪師(第四世住)僧問。學人有疑時如何。師曰。疑來多少時也。問小船渡大海時如何。師曰。較些子。曰如何得渡。師曰。不過來。問枯木生華時如何。師曰。把一朵來。問混然覓不得時如何。師曰。是什麼。

Chan Master Hongzhang of Guizong Monastery (fourth generation abbot). A monk asked, "When a student has doubt, what then?" The Master said, "How long has the doubt been coming?" He asked, "When a small boat crosses the great sea, what then?" The Master said, "A little better." He said, "How can one cross?" The Master said, "It has never come over." He asked, "When a withered tree produces flowers, what then?" The Master said, "Bring one flower here." He asked, "When one is undifferentiated and cannot find it, what then?" The Master said, "What is it?"

前池州嵆山章禪師法嗣

Heir of the former Chan Master Zhang of Jishan, Chizhou.

隨州雙泉山道虔禪師。僧問。洪鍾未扣時如何。師曰。絕音響。曰扣後如何。師曰。絕音響。問如何是在道底人。師曰。無異念。問如何是希有底事。師曰。白蓮華向半天開。師後住安州法雲院示滅。

Chan Master Daoqian of Shuangquan Mountain, Suizhou. A monk asked, "When the great bell has not been struck, what then?" The Master said, "Sound and echo are cut off." He said, "After it is struck, what then?" The Master said, "Sound and echo are cut off." He asked, "What is a person who is on the Way?" The Master said, "No disparate thoughts." He asked, "What is a rare matter?" The Master said, "A white lotus opens toward the mid-heaven." The Master later resided at Fayun Monastery in Anzhou and showed his extinction.

前洪州雲居第四世懷嶽禪師法嗣

Heir of the former Chan Master Huaiyue, fourth generation of Yunju, Hongzhou.

揚州風化院令崇禪師(第一世住)舒州宿松人。七歲出家。二十登戒。契緣於雲居懷嶽和尚。開法於信州鵝湖。廬州節帥周本於維揚西南隅創院請師居之。僧問如。何是敵國一著棊。師曰。下將來。問一棒打破虛空時如何。師曰。把將一片來。

Chan Master Lingchong of Fenghua Monastery, Yangzhou (first generation abbot), a native of Susong, Shuzhou. He left home at age seven. At twenty he received the precepts. He matched conditions with Reverend Huaiyue of Yunju. He opened the teaching at Ehu in Xinzhou. The military commissioner of Luzhou, Zhou Ben, established a monastery in the southwest corner of Weiyang and invited the Master to dwell there. A monk asked, "What is a move in chess against an enemy state?" The Master said, "Play it forth." He asked, "When one staff smashes empty space, what then?" The Master said, "Bring a piece here."

澧州藥山忠彥禪師(第八世住)僧問。教雲。諸佛放光明助發實相義。光明即不問如何是助發實相義。師曰。會麼。曰莫便是否。師曰。是什麼。問師唱誰家曲宗風嗣阿誰。師曰。雲嶺龍昌月神風洞上泉。

Chan Master Zhongyan of Yaoshan, Lizhou (eighth generation abbot). A monk asked, "The teaching says: all Buddhas emit radiance to help reveal the meaning of true reality. I do not ask about the radiance; what is the meaning of helping reveal true reality?" The Master said, "Do you understand?" He said, "Is it just this or not?" The Master said, "What is it?" He asked, "Whose song does the Master sing, and whose school and style does he inherit?" The Master said, "Cloud Ridge, Dragon Prosperity Moon; Spirit Wind Cave, upward spring."

梓州龍泉和尚。僧問。如何是祖師西來意。師曰。不在闍梨分上。問學人慾跳萬丈洪崖時如何。師曰。撲殺。

Reverend Longquan of Zizhou. A monk asked, "What is the ancestral teacher's meaning of coming from the west?" The Master said, "It is not in your portion, Acharya." He asked, "When a student wishes to leap from a ten-thousand-fathom cliff, what then?" The Master said, "Beat him to death."

前筠州洞山道延禪師法嗣

Heir of the former Chan Master Daoyan of Dongshan, Junzhou.

筠州上藍院慶禪師。初遊方問雪峰。如何是雪峰的的意。雪峰以杖子敲師頭。師應諾。峰大笑。師後承洞山印解居於上藍。僧問如何是上藍無刃劍。師曰無。僧曰。為什麼無。師曰。闍梨諸方有。

Chan Master Qing of Shanglan Monastery, Junzhou. At first, while traveling to inquire, he asked Xuefeng, "What is Xuefeng's precise meaning?" Xuefeng struck the Master's head with his staff. The Master responded in assent. Xuefeng laughed greatly. The Master later received Dongshan's seal of understanding and resided at Shanglan. A monk asked, "What is Shanglan's blade without a edge?" The Master said, "None." The monk said, "Why none?" The Master said, "Acharya, the various directions have one."

前襄州鹿門山處真禪師法嗣

Heir of the former Chan Master Chuzhen of Lumen Mountain, Xiangzhou.

益州崇真和尚。僧問。如何是禪。師曰。澄潭釣玉兔。問如何是大人相。師曰。泥揑三官土地堂。

Reverend Chongzhen of Yizhou. A monk asked, "What is Chan?" The Master said, "In a clear pool, angling for the jade rabbit." He asked, "What is the mark of a great person?" The Master said, "A shrine of the Three Officials and Earth God molded from mud."

襄州鹿門山第二世譚和尚志行大師。僧問。如何是實際理地。師曰。南贍部洲北欝單越。曰恁麼則事同一家也。師曰。隔須彌在。問遠遠投師請師接。師曰。從什麼處來。曰江北來。師曰。南堂裡安下。問如何是清淨法身。師曰。戌亥年生。

The second generation on Mount Lumen in Xiangzhou, Chan Monk Zhi-xing, Great Master Tan. A monk asked: "What is the realm of actual principle?" The Master said: "The southern continent of Jambudvipa, the northern Uttarakuru." He said: "If so, then affairs are the same as one family." The Master said: "Mount Sumeru stands between them." He asked: "Coming from afar to seek the Master, I beg the Master to receive me." The Master said: "Where have you come from?" He said: "I come from north of the river." The Master said: "Settle down in the south hall." He asked: "What is the pure Dharmakaya?" The Master said: "Born in the year of xu-hai."

襄州谷隱智靜悟空大師。僧問。如何是和尚轉身處。師曰。臥單子下。問如何是道。師曰。鳳林關下。曰學人不會。師曰。直至荊南。問如何是指歸之路。師曰。莫用伊。曰還使學人到也無。師曰。什麼處著得汝。問靈山一會何異今時。師曰。不異如今。曰不異底事作麼生。師曰。如來密旨迦葉不傳。

Great Master Zhi-jing Wu-kong of Guyin in Xiangzhou. A monk asked: "What is the place where the Master turns himself?" The Master said: "Beneath the sleeping mat." He asked: "What is the Way?" The Master said: "Below Fenglin Pass." He said: "The student does not understand." The Master said: "Straight on to Jingnan." He asked: "What is the road of pointing home?" The Master said: "Do not use it." He said: "Can it still bring the student there or not?" The Master said: "Where could it place you?" He asked: "How does the assembly on Vulture Peak differ from today?" The Master said: "It does not differ from now." He said: "What about the matter that does not differ?" The Master said: "The Tathagata's secret purport was not transmitted by Kasyapa."

廬山佛手巖行因禪師者雁門人也。未詳姓氏。早習儒學。一旦捨俗出家。志求真諦乃遊方。首謁襄陽鹿門山真禪師。師資道契。尋抵江淮登廬山。山之北有巖如五指。下有石窟深邃可三丈餘。師宴處其中。因號佛手巖和尚不度弟子。有隣庵僧為之供侍。常有異鹿錦囊鳥馴繞其側。江南國主李氏嚮仰。三遣使徵召不起。堅請就棲賢寺開法。不踰月潛歸巖室。僧問如何是對現色身。師竪起一指(法眼別雲。還有也未)一日示有微疾。謂侍僧曰。日將午吾去矣。侍僧方對。師下床行數步屹立而化。巖頂上有松一株同日枯瘁。壽七十餘。國主命畫工寫影。備香薪焚爇收遺骨塔於巖之陰。

Chan Master Xing-yin of Buddha's Hand Rock in Mount Lu was a man of Yanmen. His surname is not known in detail. In early years he studied Confucianism. One day he renounced the mundane and left home, determined to seek the true purport, and then traveled to visit teachers. He first called on Chan Master Zhen of Mount Lumen in Xiangyang. Teacher and disciple were in accord in the Way. Soon he reached Jianghuai and climbed Mount Lu. On the north of the mountain there was a rock shaped like five fingers. Below it was a stone cave, deep and secluded, more than three zhang. The Master dwelt in it in meditation. Therefore he was called Monk Buddha's Hand Rock. He did not ordain disciples. There was a monk in a neighboring hut who served him with offerings. Often strange deer, kingfisher-like birds, and tame creatures circled at his side. The ruler of the Southern Tang, of the Li family, admired him. Three times he sent envoys to summon him, but he did not rise. He firmly requested him to go to Qixian Temple to open the teaching. Before a month passed, he secretly returned to his rock chamber. A monk asked: "What is the manifest form responding to the present?" The Master raised one finger. (Fayan separately said: "Is there still or not?") One day he showed slight illness. He said to his attendant monk: "When the sun nears noon, I shall go." The attendant monk was just replying. The Master got down from his bed, walked a few steps, stood erect, and transformed. On the summit of the rock there was one pine tree that withered on the same day. He was over seventy years old. The ruler ordered a painter to make his portrait. Spare fragrant firewood was prepared to burn and collect his remains; a stupa was built on the shady side of the rock.

前撫州曹山第二世慧霞禪師法嗣

Dharma heir of the second generation Chan Master Hui-xia of Cao Mountain in former Fuzhou

嘉州東汀和尚。僧問。如何是卻去底人。師曰。石女紡麻纑。曰如何是卻來底人。師曰。扇車關𭢿良計斷。

Monk Dong-ting of Jiazhou. A monk asked: "What sort of person is one who has gone back?" The Master said: "A stone woman spins hemp thread." He said: "What sort of person is one who has come back?" The Master said: "The fan cart pass [this character is written with the hand radical and is not recognized] good plan is cut off."

前華州草菴法義禪師法嗣

Dharma heir of Chan Master Fa-yi of the Thatched Hut in former Huazhou

泉州龜洋慧忠禪師本州僊遊縣人也。姓陳氏。九歲依本山出家。既具戒杖錫觀方謁草菴和尚。草菴問曰。何方而來。師曰。六眸峰來。草菴曰。還具六通否。師曰。患非重瞳。草菴然之。師迴故山。屬唐武宗廢教例為白衣。暨宣宗中興。師曰。古人有言。上昇道士不受籙。成佛沙彌不具戒法。遂過中不食不宇而禪。乃述偈三首曰。

Chan Master Hui-zhong of Guiyang in Quanzhou was a man of Xianyou County in this prefecture. His surname was Chen. At nine years old he left home at the mountain monastery. After receiving full precepts, he carried his staff and traveled to observe the regions, calling on Monk Thatched Hut. Thatched Hut asked: "From what direction have you come?" The Master said: "I come from Six-Eyed Peak." Thatched Hut said: "Do you also possess the six superknowledges?" The Master said: "My affliction is not double-pupiled eyes." Thatched Hut approved of him. The Master returned to his old mountain. It happened that Emperor Wuzong of Tang abolished the teaching, and by regulation he became a layman in white. When Emperor Xuanzong restored the teaching, the Master said: "The ancients had a saying: An ascended Daoist priest does not receive registers; a buddha-attained sramanera does not possess the precept dharma." Then he ate nothing after noon and did not dwell in a house, but practiced Chan. He composed three verses, saying:

雪後始諳松桂別雲收方見濟河分

Only after the snow does one know the difference between pine and cassia; only when clouds clear does one see the Ji and He rivers divide.

不因世主教還俗那辨雞群與鶴群

If not because the worldly sovereign's teaching made one return to lay life, how could one distinguish the chicken flock from the crane flock?

多年塵事謾騰騰雖著方袍未是僧

For many years worldly affairs have idly surged and surged; though wearing the square robe, one is not yet a monk.

今日修行依善慧滿頭留髮候然燈

Today I cultivate practice in reliance on Good Wisdom; with hair left long on my head, I await Dipankara.

形容雖變道常存混俗心源亦不昏

Though appearance changes, the Way constantly remains; mingling with the vulgar, the source of mind is likewise not dimmed.

更讀善財巡禮偈當時何處作沙門

Moreover, reading Sudhana's verse of pilgrimage, where at that time was one made a sramana?

師始從參禮以至返初示滅未嘗下山。葬於無了和尚塔之東隅二百步。目為東塔。經數載其塔忽坼裂連階丈餘。時主塔僧將發之。於夜宴寂中見西塔定身言曰。吾之遺質既勞汝重瘞。今東塔不煩更出也。塔主稟乎靈感召檀信重修補嚴飾。逮今香燈不絕。時謂陳沈二真身是也。其無了禪師嗣馬祖事蹟。廣如別章。

The Master, from the time he first engaged in practice and paid homage until he returned to the origin and manifested extinction, never once descended from the mountain. He was buried two hundred paces east of the stupa of Monk Wuliao. It was called the East Stupa. After several years, that stupa suddenly split apart, with the crack extending over a zhang along the steps. At the time, the monk in charge of the stupa was about to open it. In the night, during a quiet repast, he saw the West Stupa's fixed-body [master] speak, saying: "My remains have already troubled you to rebury them. Now the East Stupa need not be opened again." The stupa master, endowed with spiritual responsiveness, called upon the faithful donors to repair and adorn it anew. To this day, incense and lamps continue without interruption. At the time, these were called the true bodies of the two [masters] Chen and Shen. As for Chan Master Wuliao's succession to Mazu and his deeds, they are extensively recorded in a separate chapter.

前襄州含珠山審哲禪師法嗣

Dharma heirs of the former Chan Master Shenzhe of Hanzhu Mountain, Xiangzhou

洋州龍穴山和尚。僧問。如何是祖師西來意。師曰。騎虎唱巴歌。問大善知識為什麼卻與土地燒錢。師曰。彼上人者難為醻對。

The Master of Longxue Mountain, Yangzhou. A monk asked: "What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The Master said: "Riding a tiger while singing a Ba song." [The monk] asked: "Why does a great good-knowing one burn paper money for the local earth deity?" The Master said: "That superior man is hard to repay in dialogue."

唐州大乘山和尚。問枯樹逢春時如何。師曰。世間希有。問如何是四面上事。師曰。升子裡𨁝跳斗子內轉身。

The Master of Dasheng Mountain, Tangzhou. [A monk] asked: "What is it like when a withered tree meets spring?" The Master said: "Rare in the world." [The monk] asked: "What is the business on all four sides?" The Master said: "Jumping in a sheng-measure, turning around inside a dou-measure." (The base text writes this character with the foot radical; its validity is uncertain.)

襄州鳳山延慶院歸曉慧廣大師。僧問。言語道斷時如何師曰兩重公案。曰如何領會。師曰。分明舉似洞山問如何是鳳山境。師曰。好生看取曰如何是境中人。師曰。識麼。

Great Master Huiguang of Guixiao, Yanqing Monastery, Fengshan, Xiangzhou. A monk asked: "What is it like when the path of words is cut off?" The Master said: "A double-layered public case." [The monk] said: "How does one understand it?" The Master said: "Clearly present it to Dongshan." [The monk] asked: "What is the realm of Fengshan?" The Master said: "Look carefully." [The monk] said: "What is the person in the realm?" The Master said: "Do you recognize him?"

襄州含珠山真和尚(第三世住)僧問。師唱誰家曲宗風嗣阿誰。師曰。含珠密意同道者知。曰恁麼即不假羽翼便登翠嶺也。師曰鈍。問古鏡未磨時如何。師曰。昧不得。曰磨後如何。師曰。黑如漆。

Chan Master Zhen of Hanzhu Mountain, Xiangzhou (third generation abbot). A monk asked: "Whose song does the Master sing? To whose lineage and style does he succeed?" The Master said: "The secret meaning of Hanzhu is known by those of the same way." [The monk] said: "If so, then without borrowing wings one straightaway ascends the emerald ridge." The Master said: "Dull." [The monk] asked: "What is it like before the ancient mirror is polished?" The Master said: "It cannot be obscured." [The monk] said: "What about after polishing?" The Master said: "Black as lacquer."

前鳳翔府紫陵匡一大師法嗣

Dharma heirs of the former Great Master Kuangyi of Ziling, Fengxiang Prefecture

幷州廣福道隱禪師。僧問。如何是指南一路。師曰。妙引靈機事澄波顯異輪。問三家同到請未審赴誰家。師曰。月應千家水門門盡有僧。

Chan Master Daoyin of Guangfu, Bingzhou. A monk asked: "What is the single road pointing south?" The Master said: "Wondrously guiding the spiritual mechanism, the matter is clarified; waves manifest the extraordinary wheel." [The monk] asked: "Three families have arrived together; may I ask to which family you will go?" The Master said: "The moon responds to a thousand houses' waters; every gate has its monk."