Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, Fascicle 3

杭州文喜禪師嘉禾蓹兒人也。姓朱氏。七歲出家。唐開成二年趙郡具戒。初習四分律。屬會昌廢教返服韜晦。大中初例重懺度於鹽官齊峰寺。後謁大慈山性空禪師。性空曰。子何不遍參乎。咸通三年至洪州觀音院見仰山。言下頓了心契。仰山令典常住。一日有異僧就求齋食。師減己分饋之。仰山預知問曰。適來果位人汝給食否。答曰。輟己迴施。仰山曰。汝大利益。七年旋浙右止千頃山築室而居。會巢寇之亂避地湖州住仁王院。光啟三年錢王請住龍泉廨署(今慈光院)僧問。如何是涅槃相。州曰。香煙盡處驗。問如何是佛法大意。師曰。喚院主來遮師僧患顛。問如何是自己。師默然。僧罔措。再問。師曰。青天矇昧不向月邊飛。大順元年錢王表薦賜紫衣。乾寧四年又奏師號曰無著。光化三年示疾。十月二十七日夜子時告眾曰。三界心盡即是涅槃。言訖跏趺而終。壽八十。臘六十。終時方丈發白光竹樹同色。十一月二十二日遷塔靈隱山西塢(天祐二年宣城帥田頵應杭將許思叛換縱兵大掠。發師塔覩肉身不壞髮爪俱長。武肅王奇之。遣裨將邵志重封瘞焉)。

Chan Master Wenxi of Hangzhou was a man of Yuer in Jiahe, surnamed Zhu. He left home at seven. In the second year of Kaicheng of the Tang, he received the full precepts in Zhao Commandery. At first he studied the Four-Part Vinaya. At the time of the Huichang suppression of Buddhism, he returned to lay dress and hid his traces. In the early Dazhong years, he was among those in the penitential ordination at Qifeng Temple in Yanguan. Later he visited Chan Master Xingkong of Daci Mountain. Xingkong said, "Why do you not visit widely?" In the third year of Xiantong he arrived at Guanyin Monastery in Hongzhou and saw Yangshan, and at his words he suddenly understood and was in accord in mind. Yangshan had him manage the monastery's property. One day a strange monk came to ask for food. The Master reduced his own share and gave it to him. Yangshan knew in advance and asked, "The person of the fruit stage who came just now, did you give him food?" He answered, "I stopped my own portion to give it." Yangshan said, "Great benefit to you." In the seventh year he returned to Zhexi and stayed on Qianqing Mountain, building a hut to live in. When the Huang Chao rebels made disorder, he took refuge in Huzhou and lived at Renwang Monastery. In the third year of Guangqi, King Qian invited him to live at the Longquan official quarters (now Cíguang Monastery). A monk asked, "What is the form of nirvana?" The Master said, "Verify it where the incense smoke ends." He asked, "What is the great meaning of the Buddha Dharma?" The Master said, "Call the abbot here; this monk is crazy." He asked, "What is the self?" The Master was silent. The monk was at a loss and asked again. The Master said, "The blue sky is dim and does not fly beside the moon." In the first year of Dashun, King Qian submitted a memorial recommending him and he was given a purple robe. In the fourth year of Qianning he also memorialized and the Master was given the title Wuzhuo. In the third year of Guanghua he showed illness. On the night of the twenty-seventh day of the tenth month, at the hour of zi, he told the assembly, "When the mind of the three realms is exhausted, this is nirvana." After speaking, he sat in full lotus and died. He was eighty, with sixty years as a monk. At his death white light rose from the abbot's room and the bamboo and trees were of one color. On the twenty-second day of the eleventh month, his pagoda was moved to the west valley of Lingyin Mountain. (In the second year of Tianyou, the Xuancheng commander Tian Jun, responding to the Hangzhou general Xu Si's rebellion, let his soldiers loot widely. They opened the Master's pagoda and saw the flesh body undecayed, with hair and nails grown long. King Wusu was amazed and sent the lieutenant general Shao Zhi to reseal and bury it.)

新羅五觀山順支本國號了悟大師。僧問。如何是西來意。師豎拂子。僧曰。莫遮箇便是。師放下拂子。問以字不成八字不是。是什麼字。師作圓相示之。有僧於師前作五花圓相。師畫破別作一圓相。

Shunzhi of Wuguan Mountain in Silla, called Great Master Liaowu in his own country. A monk asked, "What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The Master held up his whisk. The monk said, "Is this it?" The Master put down the whisk. He asked, "The character yi cannot be formed, the character ba is not right; what character is it?" The Master drew a circle to show him. A monk made a five-petaled circle before the Master. The Master rubbed it out and drew a different circle.

仰山南塔光湧禪師。僧問。文殊是七佛師。文殊有師否。師雲。遇緣即有。曰如何是文殊師。師竪拂子示之。僧曰。莫遮箇是麼。師放下拂子又手。問如何是妙用一句。師曰。水到渠成。問真佛住在何處。師曰。言下無相也不在別處。

Chan Master Guangyong of the South Pagoda on Yangshan. A monk asked, "Manjusri is the teacher of the seven buddhas. Does Manjusri have a teacher?" The Master said, "When conditions meet, there is." He asked, "What is Manjusri's teacher?" The Master held up his whisk to show him. The monk said, "Is this it?" The Master put down the whisk and folded his hands. He asked, "What is the one line of wondrous function?" The Master said, "When the water arrives, the channel forms." He asked, "Where does the true Buddha dwell?" The Master said, "Without form at the words, and not elsewhere either."

仰山東塔和尚。僧問。如何是君王劍。師曰。落纜不採功。僧曰。用者如何。師曰。不落時人手。問法王與君王相見時如何。師曰。兩掌無私。曰見後如何。師曰。中間絕像。

The Venerable of the East Pagoda on Yangshan. A monk asked, "What is the king's sword?" The Master said, "Cutting the cable, it takes no credit." The monk said, "What of the one who wields it?" The Master said, "It does not fall into the hands of people of the time." He asked, "What when the Dharma King and the earthly king meet?" The Master said, "Both palms are without bias." He asked, "What after they meet?" The Master said, "In between, no image."

前臨濟義玄禪師法嗣

Dharma Heirs of the Former Chan Master Linji Yixuan

灌谿志閑禪師魏府館陶人也。姓史氏。幼從柏巖禪師披剃。二十受具。後見臨濟和尚。和尚搊住良久放之。師曰。領矣。往後謂眾曰。我見臨濟無言語。直至如今飽不饑。問請師不借。師曰。我滿口道不借。師又曰。大庾嶺頭佛不會。黃梅路上沒眾生。師會下一僧去參石霜。石霜問。什麼處來。雲灌谿來。石霜雲。我北山住不如他南山住。僧無對。師聞雲。但道修涅槃堂了也。僧問。久嚮灌谿。到來只見漚麻池。師曰。汝只見漚麻池不見灌谿。僧曰。如何是灌谿。師曰。剪箭急(後人舉似玄沙。玄沙雲。更學三十年未會禪)問如何是古人骨。師曰。安置不得。曰為什麼安置不得。師曰。金烏那教下碧天。問金鎖斷後如何。師曰。正是法汝處。問如何是細。師曰。迴換不迴換。曰末後事如何。師曰。忌丈六口頭。問如何是一色。師曰。不隨。曰一色後如何。師曰。有闍梨承當分也無。問今日一會抵敵何人。師曰。不為凡聖。問一句如何。師曰。不落千聖機。問如何是洞中水。師曰不。洗人師唐乾寧二年乙卯五月二十九日問侍者曰。坐死者誰。曰僧伽。立死者誰。曰僧會。乃行六七步垂手而逝。

Chan Master Zhixian of Guanxi was a man of Guantao in Weifu, surnamed Shi. In youth he had his head shaved under Chan Master Boyan, and received the full precepts at twenty. Later he saw the Venerable Linji. The Venerable seized him and held him a long time and then let him go. The Master said, "I understand." Afterwards he told the assembly, "When I saw Linji, there were no words; to this day I am full and not hungry." He asked, "Please, Master, do not borrow." The Master said, "My mouth is full of saying do not borrow." The Master also said, "At the top of Dayu Ridge the Buddha does not understand; on the road to Huangmei there are no beings." A monk from the Master's assembly went to visit Shishuang. Shishuang asked, "Where do you come from?" He said, "From Guanxi." Shishuang said, "I live in the North Mountain, which is not as good as his living in the South Mountain." The monk had no reply. The Master heard of it and said, "Just say that the nirvana hall has been built." A monk asked, "I have long admired Guanxi, but arriving I see only a hemp-retting pond." The Master said, "You see only the hemp-retting pond and not Guanxi." The monk said, "What is Guanxi?" The Master said, "Arrows are cut in haste." (Later someone brought this up to Xuansha. Xuansha said, "Study thirty more years and you still will not understand Chan.") He asked, "What is the bones of the ancients?" The Master said, "They cannot be put anywhere." He asked, "Why can they not be put anywhere?" The Master said, "How can the golden crow be made to come down from the blue sky?" He asked, "What after the golden lock is broken?" The Master said, "That is exactly where you have the Dharma." He asked, "What is fine?" The Master said, "Turning around and not turning around." He asked, "What about the final matter?" The Master said, "Avoid the mouth of the sixteen-foot Buddha." He asked, "What is one color?" The Master said, "Not following." He asked, "What after one color?" The Master said, "Do you, acarya, have a share in taking it on?" He asked, "Whom does today's gathering oppose?" The Master said, "Neither ordinary nor saint." He asked, "What is the one line?" The Master said, "Not falling into the mechanism of a thousand sages." He asked, "What is the water in the cave?" The Master said, "It does not wash people." On the twenty-ninth day of the fifth month of the yimao year, the second year of Qianning of the Tang, the Master asked his attendant, "Who died sitting?" He said, "Sengqie." "Who died standing?" He said, "Sengkang." He then walked six or seven steps, let his hands hang, and passed away.

幽州譚空和尚。有尼欲開堂說法。師曰。尼女家不用開堂。尼曰。龍女八歲成佛又作麼生。師曰。龍女有十八變。汝與老僧試一變看。尼曰。變得也是野狐精。師乃打趁。寶壽和尚問。除卻中上二根人來時師兄作麼生。師曰。汝適來舉早錯也。壽曰。師兄也不得無過。師曰。汝卻與我作師兄。壽側掌雲。遮老賊。

The Venerable Tankong of Youzhou. A nun wished to open a hall and teach the Dharma. The Master said, "A nun does not need to open a hall." The nun said, "The dragon girl became a Buddha at eight; what then?" The Master said, "The dragon girl had eighteen transformations. Try one transformation for this old monk." The nun said, "Even if I transformed, it would be a wild fox spirit." The Master then chased her off with blows. The Venerable Baoshou asked, "Apart from people of middle and upper capacity coming, what would you do, elder brother?" The Master said, "What you raised just now was already wrong." Shou said, "Elder brother is not without fault." The Master said, "Yet you act as my elder brother." Shou turned his palm sideways and said, "This old thief."

鎮州寶壽沼和尚(第一世住)僧問。萬境來侵時如何。師曰。莫管他。僧禮拜。師曰。不要動著。動著即打折汝腰。趙州諗和尚來。師在禪床背面而坐。諗展坐具禮拜。師起入方丈。諗收坐具而出。師問僧。什麼處來。曰西山來。師曰。見獼猴麼。曰見。師曰。作什麼伎倆。曰見某甲一箇伎倆也作不得。師打之。胡釘鉸參。師問。汝莫是胡釘鉸。曰不敢。師曰。還解釘得虛空否。曰請和尚折破。某甲與釘。師以拄杖打之。胡曰。和尚莫錯打某甲。師曰。向後有多口阿師。與汝點破在(趙州雲。只遮一縫尚不柰何。乃代雲。且釘遮一縫)問萬裡無片雲時如何。師曰。青天亦須吃棒。師將順世。謂門人曰。汝還知我行履處否。對曰。知和尚一生長坐不臥。師又令近前。門人近前。師曰。去非吾眷屬。言訖而化。

The Venerable Zhao of Baoshou in Zhenzhou (first abbot). A monk asked, "What when the ten thousand realms invade?" The Master said, "Do not mind them." The monk bowed. The Master said, "Do not move. If you move, I will break your back." The Venerable Zhaozhou Shen came. The Master sat with his back to the Chan seat. Shen spread his sitting cloth and bowed. The Master got up and went into his room. Shen gathered up his sitting cloth and left. The Master asked a monk, "Where do you come from?" He said, "From West Mountain." The Master said, "Did you see monkeys?" He said, "Yes." The Master said, "What tricks do they do?" He said, "When they saw me they could do no tricks." The Master struck him. A foreign tinker came to visit. The Master asked, "Are you not the foreign tinker?" He said, "I would not dare." The Master said, "Can you mend empty space?" He said, "Please break it open, Venerable, and I will mend it." The Master struck him with his staff. The foreigner said, "Venerable, do not strike me by mistake." The Master said, "Later a talkative teacher will point it out to you." (Zhaozhou said: "Even this one seam cannot be dealt with." He then spoke in his place: "First mend this seam.") He asked, "What when there is not a wisp of cloud for ten thousand li?" The Master said, "Even the blue sky must be beaten." When the Master was about to pass away, he said to his disciples, "Do you know where I walk?" They answered, "We know that the Venerable sat long all his life without lying down." The Master told them to come forward. The disciples came forward. The Master said, "Go. You are not my kin." After speaking, he passed away.

鎮州三聖院慧然禪師。自臨濟受訣。遍歷叢林至仰山。仰山問。汝名什麼。師曰。名慧寂。仰山曰。慧寂是我名。師曰。我名慧然。仰山大笑而已。師到香嚴。嚴問。什麼處來。師曰。臨濟來。嚴曰。將得臨濟劍來麼。師以坐具驀口打而去。師到德山才展坐具。德山雲。莫展炊巾遮裡無𮩋飯。師曰。縱有也無著處。德山以拄杖打師。師接住卻推德山向禪床上。德山大笑。師哭蒼天而去。師在雪峰聞峰垂語云。人人盡有一面古鏡。遮箇獼猴亦有一面古鏡。師出問。歷劫無名。和尚為什麼立(一作彰)為古鏡。峰雲。瑕生也。師咄曰。遮老和尚話頭也不識。峰雲。罪過老僧住持事多。師見寶壽和尚開堂。師推出一僧在寶壽前。寶壽便打其僧。師曰。長老若恁麼為人。瞎卻鎮州一城人眼在(法眼雲。什麼是瞎卻人眼處)。

Chan Master Huiran of Sansheng Monastery in Zhenzhou. After receiving instruction from Linji, he traveled through the monasteries and reached Yangshan. Yangshan asked, "What is your name?" The Master said, "Huiji." Yangshan said, "Huiji is my name." The Master said, "My name is Huiran." Yangshan only laughed loudly. The Master went to Xiangyan. Yan asked, "Where do you come from?" The Master said, "From Linji." Yan said, "Did you bring Linji's sword?" The Master struck him suddenly in the mouth with his sitting cloth and left. The Master went to Deshan, and as soon as he spread his sitting cloth, Deshan said, "Do not spread a cooking cloth; there is no spoiled rice here." The Master said, "Even if there were, there is nowhere to put it." Deshan struck the Master with his staff. The Master caught it and pushed Deshan back onto the Chan seat. Deshan laughed loudly. The Master wept at the blue sky and left. When the Master was at Xuefeng, he heard Feng give a teaching, saying, "Everyone has an ancient mirror, and this monkey also has an ancient mirror." The Master came out and asked, "Through the eons it has no name; why does the Venerable establish (one source: display) it as an ancient mirror?" Feng said, "A flaw has arisen." The Master scolded, "This old monk does not even know the topic." Feng said, "My fault. The old monk has many abbot's duties." The Master saw the Venerable Baoshou open his hall. The Master pushed out a monk before Baoshou. Baoshou immediately struck the monk. The Master said, "If the elder teaches people this way, he will blind the eyes of a whole city of Zhenzhou." (Fayan said: "What is the place where eyes are blinded?")

魏府大覺禪師。興化存獎禪師為院宰時。師一日問曰。我常聞汝道向南行一迴。拄杖頭未曾撥著箇會佛法底人。汝憑什麼道理有此語。興化乃喝。師便打。興化又喝。師又打。來日興化從法堂過。師召曰。院主。我直下疑汝昨日行底喝。與我說來。興化曰。存獎平生於三聖處學得底。盡被和尚折倒了也。願與存獎箇安樂法門。師曰。遮瞎驢來遮裡納敗缺卸卻衲帔待痛決一頓。興化即於語下領旨。雖同嗣臨濟。而常以師為助發之友。師臨終時謂眾曰。我有一隻箭要付與人。時有一僧出雲。請和尚箭。師雲。汝喚什麼作箭。僧喝。師打數下。自歸方丈卻喚其僧入來。問雲。汝適來會麼。僧雲。不會。師又打數下。擲卻拄杖雲已。後遇明眼人分。明舉似。便乃告寂。

Chan Master Dajue of Weifu. When Chan Master Cunjiang of Xinghua was the monastery steward, the Master one day asked him, "I have often heard you say that on a trip south your staff head never touched a person who understood the Buddha Dharma. On what reasoning do you say this?" Xinghua shouted. The Master struck him. Xinghua shouted again. The Master struck again. The next day Xinghua passed through the Dharma hall. The Master called, "Steward. I am directly doubting the shout you gave yesterday; tell me about it." Xinghua said, "What Cunjiang learned in his whole life at Sansheng has all been broken down by the Venerable. I hope you will give Cunjiang a Dharma gate of peace and joy." The Master said, "This blind donkey has come here to expose his defeat. Take off your patched robe, and I will give you a good beating." Xinghua at once understood at these words. Though both were heirs of Linji, he always regarded the Master as a friend who helped him awaken. When the Master was dying, he told the assembly, "I have one arrow to entrust to someone." Then a monk came out and said, "Please give me the arrow, Venerable." The Master said, "What do you call an arrow?" The monk shouted. The Master struck him several times. He went back to his room and called the monk in, and asked, "Did you understand just now?" The monk said, "I did not understand." The Master struck him several more times, threw down his staff and said, "Later, when you meet someone with clear eyes, tell him plainly." Then he passed into stillness.

魏府興化存獎禪師問僧。什麼處來。曰崔禪處來。師曰。將得崔禪喝來否。曰不將得來。師曰恁麼即不從崔禪處來。僧喝之。師遂打。師謂眾曰。我只聞長廊也喝後架也喝。諸子汝莫盲喝亂喝。直饒喝得興化。向半天裡住。卻撲下來氣欲絕。待興化蘇息起來。向汝道未在。何以故。我未曾向紫羅帳裡撒真珠。與汝諸人虛空裡亂喝作什麼。師謂克賓維那曰。汝不久當為唱道之師。克賓曰。不入者保社。師曰。會了不入不會不入。賓雲總不與麼。師便打。乃雲。克賓維那法戰不勝。罰錢五貫設飯一堂。至明日師自白槌雲。克賓維那法戰不勝罰錢五貫設飯一堂不得吃飯即時出院。僧問。國師喚侍者意作麼生。師曰。一盲引眾盲師有時喚僧某甲。僧應諾。師曰。點即不到。又別喚一僧。僧應諾。師曰。到即不點。師後為後唐莊宗師。莊宗一日謂師曰。朕收大梁得一顆無價明珠。未有人酬價。師曰。請陛下珠看。帝以手舒開幞頭腳。師曰。君王之寶誰敢酬價(玄覺徵雲。且道興化肯同光不肯同光。若肯同光興化眼在什麼處。若不肯同光過在什麼處)師滅後勅諡廣濟大師。塔曰通寂。

Chan Master Cunjiang of Xinghua in Weifu asked a monk, "Where do you come from?" He said, "From Cui Chan's." The Master said, "Did you bring Cui Chan's shout?" He said, "I did not bring it." The Master said, "Then you did not come from Cui Chan's." The monk shouted at him. The Master struck him. The Master told the assembly, "I have only heard of shouting in the long corridors and shouting in the washroom. Disciples, do not shout blindly and wildly. Even if you shouted Xinghua up into the sky and he fell down nearly breathless, when Xinghua revived and got up, he would tell you not yet. Why? I have never scattered true pearls for you in a purple gauze curtain. What is the use of shouting wildly in empty space?" The Master said to the supervisor Kebin, "Before long you will be a teacher who proclaims the Way." Kebin said, "Those who do not enter are the sworn society." The Master said, "Does one who understands not enter, or does one who does not understand not enter?" Bin said, "Neither." The Master struck him. He said, "Supervisor Kebin lost the Dharma combat; fined five strings of cash and to provide a meal for the hall." The next day the Master himself rapped the gavel and said, "Supervisor Kebin lost the Dharma combat; fined five strings of cash and to provide a meal for the hall; he is not to eat the meal and is to leave the monastery at once." A monk asked, "What was the National Teacher's intention in calling his attendant?" The Master said, "One blind man leading many blind men." At times the Master called a monk, "So-and-so." The monk answered yes. The Master said, "Pointing does not arrive." He called another monk. The monk answered yes. The Master said, "Arriving does not point." The Master later became teacher to Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang. Zhuangzong said to the Master one day, "I took Daliang and obtained a priceless bright pearl, but no one has offered a price." The Master said, "Please show me the pearl, Your Majesty." The emperor spread open the wings of his cap with his hand. The Master said, "The ruler's treasure; who dares offer a price?" (Xuanjue asked: "Tell me, did Xinghua approve of Tongguang or not? If he approved, where were Xinghua's eyes? If he did not approve, where was the fault?") After the Master's death, an imperial decree gave him the posthumous title Great Master Guangji, and the pagoda was named Tongji.

定州善崔禪師。州將王公於衙署張座請師說法。師升坐良久。謂眾曰。出來也打不出來也打。時譚空和尚出曰。崔禪聻。師曰。久立太尉珍重。便下坐。

Chan Master Shancui of Dingzhou. The prefectural general Lord Wang set up a seat at his office and asked the Master to teach. The Master ascended the seat and after a long while told the assembly, "If you come out, I strike; if you do not come out, I strike." Then the Venerable Tankong came out and said, "What of Cui Chan?" The Master said, "You have stood long, Commandant; take care." He then came down from the seat.

鎮州萬歲和尚僧問。大眾上堂合譚何事。師曰。序品第一。問僧家究竟如何。師曰。本來只是吹灰法。卻向灘頭卸卻衣。師訪寶壽。初見便展坐具。寶壽即下禪床。師乃坐彼禪床。寶壽驟入方丈。少頃知事白師曰。堂頭和尚已關卻門也。請和尚庫頭吃茶。師乃歸院。翌日寶壽來復謁。師踞禪床。寶壽展坐具。師亦下禪床。寶壽還坐禪床。師歸方丈閉關。寶壽入侍者寮內取灰。於方丈前圍三道而退。

The Venerable Wansui of Zhenzhou. A monk asked, "What should the assembly discuss in the hall?" The Master said, "The first chapter, the Introductory Chapter." He asked, "What is the ultimate for a monk?" The Master said, "Originally it is only the method of blowing on ashes, yet he takes off his clothes at the shore." The Master visited Baoshou. At first sight he spread his sitting cloth. Baoshou came down from the Chan seat. The Master sat on that Chan seat. Baoshou hurried into his room. After a while the steward told the Master, "The Venerable abbot has already closed his door. He asks the Venerable to go to the storeroom for tea." The Master then returned to his monastery. The next day Baoshou came to visit in return. The Master sat on the Chan seat. Baoshou spread his sitting cloth. The Master also came down from the Chan seat. Baoshou again sat on the Chan seat. The Master returned to his room and closed the door. Baoshou went into the attendants' quarters, took ashes, drew three circles of ashes in front of the abbot's room, and left.

雲山和尚。有僧從西京來。師問。還得西京主人書來否。僧曰。不敢妄通消息。師曰。作家師僧天然有在。僧曰。殘羹殘菜誰吃。師曰。獨有闍梨不甘吃。其僧乃作吐勢。師喚侍者曰。扶出遮病僧著。僧便出去。

The Venerable Yunshan. A monk came from the Western Capital. The Master asked, "Did you bring a letter from the master of the Western Capital?" The monk said, "I dare not carelessly pass news." The Master said, "A master monk is naturally capable." The monk said, "Who eats the leftover soup and vegetables?" The Master said, "Only you, acarya, are unwilling to eat." The monk then made a gesture of vomiting. The Master called his attendant and said, "Help this sick monk out." The monk went out.

桐峰菴主僧問。和尚遙裡忽遇大蟲作麼生。師作吼聲。僧作怖勢。師大笑。僧曰。遮老賊。師曰。爭柰老僧何。有僧到菴前便去。師曰。闍梨闍梨。僧迴首便喝。師良久。僧曰。死卻遮老漢。師乃打之。僧無語。師呵呵大笑。有僧入菴把住師。師曰。殺人殺人。其僧推開曰。叫作麼。師曰誰。僧乃喝。師打之。僧出迴首曰。且待且待。師大笑。

The hermit of Tongfeng Hermitage. A monk asked, "What would you do, Venerable, if you suddenly met a tiger here?" The Master made a roaring sound. The monk made a frightened pose. The Master laughed loudly. The monk said, "This old thief." The Master said, "What can you do about this old monk?" A monk came to the front of the hermitage and then left. The Master said, "Acarya, acarya." The monk turned his head and shouted. The Master was silent a long while. The monk said, "This old man is dead." The Master then struck him. The monk had no words. The Master laughed heartily. A monk entered the hermitage and seized the Master. The Master said, "Murder, murder." The monk pushed him away and said, "What are you shouting?" The Master said, "Who?" The monk shouted. The Master struck him. The monk went out, turned his head and said, "Wait, wait." The Master laughed loudly.

杉洋菴主。有僧到參。師問。阿誰。曰杉注菴主。師曰。是我。僧便喝。師作噓聲。僧曰。猶要棒在。師便打。僧問。菴主得什麼道理後住此山。師曰。也欲通箇來由。又恐遭人點檢。僧曰。又爭免得。師乃喝之。僧曰。恰是。師乃打。其僧大笑而出。師曰。今日大敗大敗。

The hermit of Shanyang Hermitage. A monk came to visit. The Master asked, "Who?" He said, "The hermit of Shanyang Hermitage." The Master said, "It is me." The monk shouted. The Master made a hushing sound. The monk said, "Still needs a stick." The Master struck him. The monk asked, "By what principle did the hermit come to live on this mountain?" The Master said, "I wanted to tell the reason, but fear being examined." The monk said, "How can you avoid it?" The Master shouted at him. The monk said, "Exactly." The Master struck him. The monk laughed loudly and went out. The Master said, "Today I was thoroughly defeated, thoroughly defeated."

涿州紙衣和尚初問臨濟。如何是奪人不奪境。臨濟曰。春煦發生鋪地錦。嬰兒垂髮白如絲。師曰。如何是奪境不奪人。曰王令已行天下遍。將軍塞外絕煙塵師曰。如何是人境俱不奪。曰王登寶殿野老謳歌。師曰。如何是人境俱奪。曰並汾絕信獨處一方。師於言下領旨。深入三玄三要四句之門。頗資化道。

The Venerable Paper-Robe of Zhuozhou. At first he asked Linji, "What is taking away the person but not the environment?" Linji said, "The spring warmth brings forth a brocade spread on the ground; the baby's hanging hair is white as silk." The Master said, "What is taking away the environment but not the person?" He said, "The king's order has gone out all over the world; the general beyond the frontier has no smoke or dust." The Master said, "What is taking away neither person nor environment?" He said, "The king ascends the precious hall, and old farmers sing songs." The Master said, "What is taking away both person and environment?" He said, "Bing and Fen have no news; alone, one dwells in one place." The Master understood the teaching at these words, entered deeply the gate of the Three Mysteries, Three Essentials, and Four Lines, and was of much help in teaching.

虎谿菴主。僧到抽坐具相看。師不顧。僧曰。知道菴主有此機鋒。師鳴指一聲。僧曰。是何宗旨。師便摑之。僧曰。知道今日落人便宜。師曰。猶要棒在。有僧才入門。師便喝。僧默然。師打之。僧卻喝。師曰。好箇草賊。僧到不審。師曰。阿誰。僧喝。師曰。得恁麼無賓主。僧曰。猶要第二喝在。師乃喝之。有僧問。和尚何處人事。師雲。隴西人。僧雲。承聞隴西有鸚鵡還實也無。師雲是。僧雲。和尚莫不是也無。師便作鸚鵡聲。僧雲。好箇鸚鵡。師便棒之。

The hermit of Huxi Hermitage. A monk arrived, took out his sitting cloth and looked at him. The Master did not look back. The monk said, "I knew the hermit had this sharpness." The Master snapped his fingers once. The monk said, "What is the school's purport?" The Master slapped him. The monk said, "I know I have fallen into someone's advantage today." The Master said, "Still needs a stick." A monk had just entered the door when the Master shouted. The monk was silent. The Master struck him. The monk shouted back. The Master said, "A fine grass thief." A monk arrived and greeted him. The Master said, "Who?" The monk shouted. The Master said, "To have no guest and host like this." The monk said, "Still needs a second shout." The Master shouted at him. A monk asked, "Where are you from, Venerable?" The Master said, "A man of Longxi." The monk said, "I have heard Longxi has parrots; is it true?" The Master said, "Yes." The monk said, "Are you not one yourself, Venerable?" The Master made the cry of a parrot. The monk said, "A fine parrot." The Master struck him with a stick.

覆盆菴主問僧。什麼處來。曰覆盆山下來。師曰。還見菴主否。僧便喝。師便掌。僧曰。作麼。師又喝。一日有僧從山下哭上。師閉庵門。僧於門上畫一圓月相。師從菴後出卻從山下哭上。僧喝曰。猶作遮箇去就在。師便換手搥胸曰。可惜先師一場埋沒。僧曰。苦苦。師曰。菴主被謾。

The hermit of Fupen Hermitage asked a monk, "Where do you come from?" He said, "From below Fupen Mountain." The Master said, "Did you see the hermit?" The monk shouted. The Master slapped him. The monk said, "What is this?" The Master shouted. One day a monk came up the mountain from below weeping. The Master closed the door of the hermitage. The monk drew a round moon on the door. The Master came out from behind the hermitage and came up the mountain from below weeping. The monk shouted, "Still doing this sort of thing." The Master changed hands and beat his chest, saying, "What a pity the late teacher was buried." The monk said, "Bitter, bitter." The Master said, "The hermit has been deceived."

襄州歷村和尚煎茶次。僧問。如何是祖師西來意。師舉茶匙子。僧曰。莫只遮便當否。師擲向火中。問如何是觀其音聲而得解脫。師將火筯打柴頭問。汝還聞否。曰聞。師曰。誰不解脫。

The Venerable Licun of Xiangzhou was brewing tea. A monk asked, "What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The Master raised the tea spoon. The monk said, "Is it just this?" The Master threw it into the fire. He asked, "What is it to attain liberation by observing sounds?" The Master struck the firewood with the fire tongs and asked, "Do you hear?" He said, "I hear." The Master said, "Who is not liberated?"

滄州米倉和尚。州牧請師與寶壽和尚入廳供養。令人傳語。請二長老譚論佛法。壽曰。請師兄長老答話。師喝之。壽曰。某甲尚未借問何便行喝師曰。猶欠少在。壽卻與一喝。

The Venerable Micang of Cangzhou. The prefect invited the Master and the Venerable Baoshou into the hall for offerings, and sent a message: "Please, the two elders, discuss the Buddha Dharma." Shou said, "Please let my elder brother, the elder, answer." The Master shouted. Shou said, "I have not yet asked anything; why do you shout?" The Master said, "It is still lacking." Shou then gave a shout in return.

睦州陳尊宿法嗣

Dharma Heirs of the Venerable Chen of Muzhou

睦州刺史陳操與僧齋次。拈起餬餅問僧。江西湖南還有遮箇麼僧曰。尚書適來吃什麼。陳曰。敲鍾謝響。又一日齋僧次躬行餅。僧展手接。陳乃縮手。僧無語。陳曰。果然果然。異日問僧曰。有箇事與上坐商量得麼。僧曰。合取狗口。陳自摑曰。操罪過。僧曰。知過必改。陳曰。恁麼即乞上坐口吃飯。又齋僧自行食次曰。上坐施食。上坐曰。三德六味。陳曰錯。上坐無對。又與寮屬登樓次。有數僧行來。一官人曰。來者總是行腳僧。陳曰。不是。曰焉知不是。陳曰。待近與問相次。諸僧樓前行過。陳驀喚上坐。僧皆迴顧。陳謂諸官曰。不信道。又與禪者頌曰。

Chen Cao, Prefect of Muzhou, was feasting monks and picked up a flatbread and asked a monk, "Do Jiangxi and Hunan have this?" The monk said, "What did you eat just now, Minister?" Chen said, "Striking the bell to thank the sound." Another day, while feeding monks, he personally served the flatbread. The monk spread out his hand to receive it. Chen drew back his hand. The monk had no words. Chen said, "Just so, just so." On another day he asked a monk, "Is there something I can discuss with you, Senior?" The monk said, "Shut your dog's mouth." Chen slapped himself and said, "Cao's fault." The monk said, "Knowing a fault, he must change it." Chen said, "Then I ask the Senior's mouth for my meal." On another occasion he was feeding monks himself and said, "Senior, make an offering of food." The senior said, "Three virtues and six flavors." Chen said, "Wrong." The senior had no reply. Another time he was with his subordinates going up a tower when several monks came along. An official said, "Those coming are all traveling monks." Chen said, "They are not." The official asked, "How do you know they are not?" Chen said, "Wait until they are near and I'll ask." The monks were passing by in front of the tower. Chen suddenly called, "Senior." The monks all turned to look. Chen said to the officials, "You do not believe it." He also gave a verse to a Chan person:

禪者有玄機機玄是復非

A Chan person has a profound mechanism; is the mechanism profound or not?

欲了機前旨鹹於句下違

Wishing to understand the purport before the mechanism, all go astray under the words.

前香嚴智閑禪師法嗣

Dharma Heirs of the Former Chan Master Xiangyan Zhixian

吉州止觀和尚。問如何是毘盧師。師攔胸與一托。問如何是頓。師雲。非梁陳。

The Venerable Zhiguan of Jizhou. A monk asked, "What is the Vairocana teacher?" The Master pushed him on the chest. He asked, "What is the sudden?" The Master said, "Not Liang or Chen."

壽州紹宗禪師。問如何是西來意。師曰。好事不出門惡事行千里。有官人謂師曰。見說江西不立宗。師曰。遇緣即立。曰遇緣立箇什麼。師曰。江西不立宗。

Chan Master Shaozong of Shouzhou. A monk asked, "What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The Master said, "Good deeds do not go out of the door; bad deeds travel a thousand li." An official said to the Master, "I hear that Jiangxi does not set up a school." The Master said, "When conditions meet, it is set up." He asked, "What is set up when conditions meet?" The Master said, "Jiangxi does not set up a school."

襄州延慶法端號紹真大師。官人問。蚯蚓斬兩段兩頭俱動。佛性在阿那頭。師展兩手(洞山別雲。即今問底在那箇頭。此又收在十一卷溈山下何也)。

Fa Duan of Yanqing in Xiangzhou, called Great Master Shaozhen. An official asked, "When an earthworm is cut in two, both ends move; where is the Buddha-nature, at which end?" The Master spread both hands. (Dongshan said separately: "Where is the one asking right now?" This is again included in fascicle eleven under Weishan; why?)

益州南禪無染大師。問無句之句師還答也無。師曰。從來只明恁麼事。僧曰。畢竟如何。師曰。且問看。

Great Master Wuran of South Chan Monastery in Yizhou. A monk asked, "Will the Master answer the line that has no line?" The Master said, "Always I have only clarified this sort of thing." The monk said, "What in the end?" The Master said, "Ask and see."

益州長平山和尚。問視瞬不及處如何。師曰我眨眼也勿工夫。問如何是祖師意。師曰。西天來唐土去。

The Venerable of Changping Mountain in Yizhou. A monk asked, "What when looking and blinking do not reach?" The Master said, "When I blink there is no effort." He asked, "What is the Patriarch's meaning?" The Master said, "Coming from India, going to the land of Tang."

益州崇福演教大師。問如何是寬廓之言。師曰。無口道得。問如何是西來意。師曰。今日明日。

Great Master Yanjiao of Chongfu in Yizhou. A monk asked, "What is vast and open speech?" The Master said, "Without a mouth, it can be said." He asked, "What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The Master said, "Today, tomorrow."

安州大安山清幹禪師。問從上諸聖從何而證。師乃斫額。問如何是祖師西來意。師曰羊頭車子推明月。

Chan Master Qinggan of Da'an Mountain in Anzhou. A monk asked, "From where did the sages of old realize it?" The Master slapped his forehead. He asked, "What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The Master said, "A sheep-head cart pushing the bright moon."

終南山豐德寺和尚。問如何是和尚家風。師曰。觸事面牆。問如何是本來事。師曰。終不更問人。

The Venerable of Fengde Temple on Zhongnan Mountain. A monk asked, "What is the Venerable's family style?" The Master said, "Facing the wall in every matter." He asked, "What is the original matter?" The Master said, "In the end one does not ask others again."

均州武當山佛巖暉禪師。問頃年有疾又中毒藥。請師醫。師曰。二宜湯一椀。又問。如何是佛向上事。曰螺髻子。

Chan Master Hui of Foyan on Wudang Mountain in Junzhou. A monk asked, "I have had an illness in recent years and was also poisoned by medicine; please, Master, cure me." The Master said, "A bowl of Two-Suitable Decoction." He asked again, "What is the matter beyond the Buddha?" He said, "A snail-shell topknot."

江西廬山雙谿田道者。問如何是啐啄之機。師以手作啄勢。問如何是西來意。師曰。什麼處得箇問頭來。

The Daoist Tian of Shuangxi on Mount Lu in Jiangxi. A monk asked, "What is the mechanism of the chick pecking and the hen pecking?" The Master made a pecking gesture with his hand. He asked, "What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The Master said, "Where did you get such a question?"