Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, Fascicle Twelve

懷讓禪師第四世

Fourth Generation of Chan Master Huairang

前洪州黃檗山希運禪師法嗣

Dharma Heirs of the Former Chan Master Xiyun of Mount Huangbo in Hongzhou

鎮州臨濟。義玄禪師。曹州南華人也。姓邢氏。幼負出塵之志。及落髮進具便慕禪宗。初在黃檗隨眾參侍。時堂中第一座勉令問話。師乃問。如何是祖師西來的的意。黃檗便打。如是三問三遭打。遂告辭。第一座雲。早承激勸問話。唯蒙和尚賜棒。所恨愚魯。且往諸方行腳去在。座遂告黃檗雲。義玄雖是後生卻甚奇特。來辭時願和尚更垂提誘。來日師辭黃檗。黃檗指往大愚。師遂參大愚。愚問曰。什麼處來。曰黃檗來。愚曰。黃檗有何言教。曰義玄親問佛法的。的意。蒙和尚便打。如是三問三遭被打。不知過在什麼處。愚曰。黃檗恁麼老婆。為汝得徹困。猶覓過在。師於言下大悟雲。元來黃檗佛法無多子。大愚搊住雲。者尿床鬼子適來又道不會。如今卻道黃檗佛法無多子。爾見箇什麼道理。速道速道。師於大愚肋下築三拳。大愚托開雲。汝師黃檗。非幹我事。師辭大愚卻迴黃檗。黃檗雲汝迴太速生。師雲。秖為老婆心切便人事了。侍立次黃檗雲。大愚有何言句。師遂舉前話。黃檗雲。這大愚老漢待見痛與一頓。師雲。說甚麼待見。即今便與。隨後便打黃檗一掌。黃檗雲。這風顛漢。卻來這裡捋虎鬚。師便喝。黃檗雲。侍者引。這風顛漢參堂去(後溈山舉此話問仰山雲。臨濟當時得大愚力得黃檗力。仰山雲。非但騎虎頭。亦解把虎尾)師一日與黃檗赴普請師在後行。黃檗回頭見師空手乃問。钁頭在什麼處。師雲。有人將去了也。黃檗雲。近前來。共汝商量箇事。師便近前。黃檗將钁钁地雲。我這箇天下人拈掇不起。師就手掣得竪起雲。為什麼卻在某甲手裡。黃檗雲。今日自有人普請我更不著去也。便歸院(後溈山舉問仰山雲。钁頭在黃檗手裡。為甚卻被臨濟奪卻。仰山雲。賊是小人智過君子)黃檗一日普請鋤茶園。黃檗後至。師問訊按钁而立。黃檗曰。莫是困耶。曰才钁地何言困。黃檗舉拄杖便打。

Chan Master Yixuan of Linji in Zhenzhou was from Nanhua in Caozhou, with the surname Xing. In childhood he had the aspiration to leave the dust of the world. When he shaved his head and received the full precepts, he admired the Chan school. At first he attended and studied with the assembly under Huangbo. At that time the head seat in the hall urged him to ask a question. The Master then asked: "What is the true meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" Huangbo struck him. Thus he asked three times and was struck three times, and then took his leave. The head seat said: "I had urged him to ask a question, and he only received the Reverend's stick. What a pity for his dullness; let him go and travel elsewhere." The head seat then told Huangbo: "Yixuan, though young, is quite extraordinary. When he comes to take leave, I hope the Reverend will further guide and draw him on." The next day the Master took his leave of Huangbo, and Huangbo directed him to Dayu. The Master went to call on Dayu. Yu asked: "Where do you come from?" He said: "From Huangbo." Yu said: "What teaching did Huangbo give?" He said: "I asked three times about the true meaning of the Buddha Dharma and was struck each time. I do not know where my fault lies." Yu said: "Huangbo is such a grandmother, tiring himself out for you, and you still look for a fault." At these words the Master awakened greatly and said: "So the Buddha Dharma of Huangbo is not much." Dayu grabbed him and said: "You bedwetting little ghost, just now you said you did not understand, and now you say Huangbo's Buddha Dharma is not much. What principle have you seen? Say it quickly, say it quickly." The Master punched Dayu three times in the ribs. Dayu pushed him away and said: "Your teacher is Huangbo, it is none of my business." The Master took leave of Dayu and returned to Huangbo. Huangbo said: "You have come back very quickly." The Master said: "Only because of your grandmotherly kindness." He then paid his respects. While standing in attendance, Huangbo said: "What words did Dayu have?" The Master then told the earlier story. Huangbo said: "This old Dayu; when I see him I will give him a good beating." The Master said: "Why say 'when I see him'? Take it right now." He then slapped Huangbo. Huangbo said: "This madman has come here to pull the tiger's whiskers." The Master shouted. Huangbo said: "Attendant, take this madman to the monks' hall." (Later Guishan brought up this story and asked Yangshan: "At that time did Linji gain the power of Dayu, or the power of Huangbo?" Yangshan said: "Not only did he ride the tiger's head, he also knew how to grab the tiger's tail.") One day the Master went with Huangbo for communal work, and the Master walked behind. Huangbo turned his head and saw the Master empty-handed and asked: "Where is your hoe?" The Master said: "Someone took it away." Huangbo said: "Come closer, I will discuss something with you." The Master came closer. Huangbo hoed the ground with his hoe and said: "No one in the world can lift this of mine." The Master snatched it, raised it, and said: "Why is it now in my hands?" Huangbo said: "Today someone else will do the communal work, and I need not go." He returned to the monastery. (Later Guishan brought this up and asked Yangshan: "The hoe was in Huangbo's hand; why was it taken away by Linji?" Yangshan said: "The thief is a petty man, but his wisdom surpasses that of a gentleman.") One day Huangbo had everyone hoe the tea garden, and Huangbo arrived later. The Master greeted him and stood leaning on his hoe. Huangbo said: "Are you tired?" He said: "I had only just hoed the ground; what tired?" Huangbo raised his staff and struck him.

師接杖推倒和尚。黃檗呼維那。維那拽起我來。維那扶起曰。和尚爭容得這風顛漢無禮。黃檗卻打維那。師自钁地雲。諸方即火葬。我這裡活埋(溈山問仰山。只如黃檗與臨濟。此時意作麼生。仰山雲。正賊走卻羅贓人吃棒)師一日在黃檗僧堂裡睡。黃檗入來。以拄杖於床邊敲三下。師舉首見是和尚卻睡。黃檗打席三下去。卻往上間見首座坐禪乃雲。下間後生卻坐禪。汝這裡妄想作什麼。首座雲。這老漢患風耶。黃檗打板頭一下。便出去(溈山舉問仰山。只如黃檗意作麼生。仰山雲。兩彩一賽)師與黃檗裁杉。黃檗曰。深山裡裁許多樹作麼。師曰。一與後人作古記。二與山門作標榜。道了以钁頭打地三下。黃檗雲雖然如是子已吃我棒了也。師又以钁頭打地三下作噓噓聲。黃檗雲。吾宗到汝此記方出(溈山舉問仰山。且道黃檗後語但囑臨濟。為復別有意旨。仰山雲。亦囑臨濟。亦記向後。溈山雲。向後作麼生。仰山雲。一人指南吳越令行。南塔和尚注云。獨坐震威此記方出。又云。若遇大風此記亦出。溈山雲。如是如是)師因半夏。上黃檗山見和尚看經。師曰。我將謂是箇人。元來是唵黑豆老和尚。住數日乃辭去。黃檗曰。汝破夏來不終夏去。曰某甲暫來禮拜和尚。黃檗遂打趁令去。師行數裡。疑此事卻迴終夏。師一日辭黃檗。黃檗曰。什麼處去。曰不是河南即河北去。黃檗拈起拄杖便打。師捉住拄杖曰。這老漢莫盲枷瞎棒。已後錯打人在。黃檗遂喚侍者。把將几案禪板來。師曰。侍者把將火來。黃檗曰。不然子但將去。已後坐斷天下人舌頭在。師即便發去師到熊耳塔頭。塔主問。先禮佛先禮祖。師曰祖佛俱不禮。塔主曰。祖佛與長老有什麼冤傢俱不禮。師便拂袖而出(又別舉雲。師問塔主。先禮佛先禮祖。塔主曰。祖佛是什麼人弟子。師拂袖便去)師後還鄉黨。俯徇趙人之請。住於城南臨濟禪苑。

The Master took the staff and pushed the Reverend over. Huangbo called the rector: "Rector, pull me up." The rector helped him up and said: "Reverend, how can you tolerate this madman's rudeness?" Huangbo instead struck the rector. The Master hoed the ground himself and said: "Elsewhere they cremate; here I bury alive." (Guishan asked Yangshan: "Just now, Huangbo and Linji; what was the intent at that moment?" Yangshan said: "The real thief ran away, and the one who tracks the loot got the stick.") One day the Master was sleeping in Huangbo's monks' hall. Huangbo came in and knocked three times with his staff beside the bed. The Master raised his head, saw it was the Reverend, and went back to sleep. Huangbo struck the mat three times and left. He then went to the upper room and saw the head seat sitting in meditation and said: "The young man in the lower room is at least sitting in meditation; what delusions are you having here?" The head seat said: "This old man must have a wind sickness." Huangbo struck the board once and went out. (Guishan asked Yangshan: "What was Huangbo's intent?" Yangshan said: "Two stakes, one wager.") The Master was planting cedars with Huangbo. Huangbo said: "Why plant so many trees deep in the mountains?" The Master said: "First, to make an ancient record for later people; second, to make a signpost for the mountain gate." Having said this, he struck the ground three times with the hoe. Huangbo said: "Even so, you have already had my stick." The Master again struck the ground three times with the hoe and made a hissing sound. Huangbo said: "My school, upon reaching you, will bring out this record." (Guishan asked Yangshan: "Tell me, were Huangbo's later words only entrusted to Linji, or is there another meaning?" Yangshan said: "He entrusted it to Linji, and also prophesied the future." Guishan said: "What about the future?" Yangshan said: "One man points south, and in Wu and Yue the command is carried out." The Monk Nanta annotated: "Sitting alone and shaking with majesty, this record then appears." And also: "If it meets a great wind, this record also appears." Guishan said: "So it is, so it is.") In the middle of the summer retreat the Master went up Mount Huangbo and saw the Reverend reading sutras. The Master said: "I took you for a person, but you are just an old monk who chews black beans." After staying a few days he took his leave. Huangbo said: "You came and broke the retreat and are leaving before it ends." He said: "I only came briefly to pay respects to the Reverend." Huangbo struck him and chased him away. The Master walked several li, doubted about this matter, and returned and stayed to the end of the retreat. One day the Master took leave of Huangbo. Huangbo said: "Where are you going?" He said: "If not Henan, then Hebei." Huangbo picked up his staff and struck him. The Master seized the staff and said: "This old man, do not strike blindly with a blind stick; later you will strike the wrong person." Huangbo then called the attendant: "Bring the desk and the meditation board." The Master said: "Attendant, bring fire." Huangbo said: "Not so, just take them with you. Later you will cut off the tongues of all the world." The Master then set out. The Master arrived at the pagoda at Xiong'er. The pagoda keeper asked: "Do you bow to the Buddha first or to the Patriarch first?" The Master said: "I bow to neither Patriarch nor Buddha." The pagoda keeper said: "What enmity do Patriarch and Buddha have with you, Elder, that you bow to neither?" The Master flicked his sleeve and went out. (Another version says: The Master asked the pagoda keeper: "Do you bow to the Buddha first or to the Patriarch first?" The pagoda keeper said: "Whose disciples are the Patriarch and Buddha?" The Master flicked his sleeve and left.) Later the Master returned to his hometown and, yielding to the request of the people of Zhao, lived at Linji Chan Monastery south of the city.

學侶奔湊。一日上堂曰。汝等諸人赤肉團上有一無位真人。常向汝諸人面門出入。未證據者看看。時有僧問。如何是無位真人。師下禪床把住雲。道道。僧擬議。師托開雲。無位真人是什麼乾屎橛。便歸方丈。師問樂普雲。從上來一人行棒一行喝。阿那箇親。對曰。總不親。師曰。親處作麼生。普便喝。師乃打。師問木口和尚。如何是露地白牛。木口曰吽。師曰啞。木口曰。老兄作麼生。師曰。這畜生。大覺到參。師舉拂子。大覺敷坐具。師擲下拂子。大覺收坐具入僧堂。眾僧曰。這僧莫是和尚親故。不禮拜又不吃棒。師聞令喚新到僧。大覺遂出。師曰。大眾道汝未參長老。大覺雲。不審便自歸眾。麻谷(第二世)到參敷坐具問。十二面觀音阿那面正。師下繩床。一手收坐具一手搊麻谷雲。十二面觀音向什麼處去也。麻谷轉身擬坐繩床。師拈拄杖打。麻谷接卻相捉入方丈。師上堂雲。大眾。夫為法者不避喪身失命。我於黃檗先師處。三度問佛法的的大意。三度蒙他賜棒。如蒿枝拂著相似如今更思一頓誰為我下手得。時有僧出雲。某甲行得。師拈棒與他。其僧擬接。師便打(後雪峰拈雲。臨濟大似白拈賊)僧問。如何是第一句。師曰。三要印開朱點窄。未容擬議主賓分。曰如何是第二句。師曰。妙解豈容無著問。漚和爭負截流機。曰如何是第三句。師曰。看取棚頭弄傀儡。抽牽全籍裡邊人。師又曰。夫一句語須具三玄門。一玄門須具三要。有權有用。汝等諸人作麼生會。時唐咸通七年丙戌四月十日。師將示寂上堂雲。吾滅後不得滅卻吾正法眼藏。三聖出雲。爭敢滅卻和尚正法眼藏。師雲。已後有人問爾向他道什麼。三聖便喝。師雲。誰知吾正法眼藏向這瞎驢邊滅卻。乃有頌曰。

Students rushed to him. One day he ascended the hall and said: "On your lumps of red flesh there is a true person of no rank, constantly going in and out of the gates of your faces. Those who have not yet verified it, look, look." At that time a monk asked: "What is the true person of no rank?" The Master came down from the meditation seat, seized him, and said: "Speak, speak." The monk hesitated. The Master pushed him away and said: "The true person of no rank, what a dry shit-stick." He then returned to the abbot's room. The Master asked Lepu: "From of old, one person uses the stick and one person uses the shout; which is closer?" He answered: "Neither is close." The Master said: "What is the close place?" Pu shouted. The Master struck him. The Master asked the Monk Mukou: "What is the white ox on the open ground?" Mukou said: "Hum." The Master said: "Mute." Mukou said: "How is it with you, elder brother?" The Master said: "This animal." Dajue came to call. The Master raised his whisk. Dajue spread his sitting cloth. The Master threw down the whisk. Dajue folded his sitting cloth and entered the monks' hall. The monks said: "This monk must be a relative of the Reverend; he did not bow and did not get beaten." The Master heard of it and had the newly arrived monk called. Dajue came out. The Master said: "The assembly says you have not yet called on the Elder." Dajue said: "Greetings." and returned to the assembly on his own. Magu (second generation) came to call, spread his sitting cloth, and asked: "The twelve-faced Guanyin, which face is the true one?" The Master came down from the rope seat, with one hand folded the sitting cloth and with the other seized Magu and said: "Where has the twelve-faced Guanyin gone?" Magu turned and was about to sit on the rope seat. The Master picked up his staff and struck him. Magu took it, and they grappled into the abbot's room. The Master ascended the hall and said: "Assembly, one who seeks the Dharma does not avoid losing body and life. Three times at my late teacher Huangbo's place I asked the true meaning of the Buddha Dharma, and three times I received his stick, like being brushed by a stalk of mugwort. Now I would like another beating; who can lay hands on me for it?" At that time a monk came out and said: "I can do it." The Master picked up the stick and gave it to him. The monk was about to take it, and the Master struck him. (Later Xuefeng remarked: "Linji is just like a thief who snatches in the open.") A monk asked: "What is the first phrase?" The Master said: "When the seal of the three essentials opens, the red dot is narrow; there is no room for hesitation to separate guest and host." He asked: "What is the second phrase?" The Master said: "How could wondrous understanding allow a question without attachment? A bubble in harmony, how could it fail the mechanism that cuts the stream?" He asked: "What is the third phrase?" The Master said: "Look at the puppets on the stage; the pulling and drawing all depends on the person inside." The Master also said: "A single phrase must have the three mysterious gates, and each mysterious gate must have the three essentials, with expedient means and with function. How do you understand it?" At that time, on the tenth day of the fourth month of the seventh year of Xiantong in the Tang, the year bingxu, the Master was about to show his passing, ascended the hall and said: "After I am gone, you must not extinguish my true Dharma eye treasury." Sansheng came out and said: "How dare I extinguish the Reverend's true Dharma eye treasury?" The Master said: "If later someone asks you, what will you tell them?" Sansheng shouted. The Master said: "Who would know that my true Dharma eye treasury would be extinguished by this blind donkey?" Then he gave a verse saying:

沿流不止問如何真照無邊說似他

Flowing along without stopping, one asks how; true illumination is boundless, so tell it to him.

離相離名人不稟吹毛用了急還磨

Apart from form and name, people do not receive it; having used the hair-splitting sword, quickly sharpen it again.

頌畢坐逝。勅諡慧照大師。塔曰澄靈。

When the verse was finished he sat and passed away. He was granted by imperial decree the title Great Master Huizhao, and his stupa was called Chengling.

懷讓禪師及曹溪別出共七十七人(懷讓禪師第七世至第九世曹溪別出第二世至第六世)

Chan Master Huairang and the Separate Branch from Caoxi, Seventy-Seven People in Total (Seventh to Ninth Generations of Chan Master Huairang, and Second to Sixth Generations of the Separate Branch from Caoxi)

懷讓第七世一十一人(七世一作九世)

Seventh Generation from Huairang, Eleven People (the seventh generation is in one version the ninth)

郢州芭蕉山慧清禪師法嗣四人郢州興陽清讓禪師

Four Dharma Heirs of Chan Master Huiqing of Mount Bajiao in Yingzhou: Chan Master Qingrang of Xingyang in Yingzhou

洪州幽谷山法滿禪師(已上二人見錄)

Chan Master Faman of Mount Yougu in Hongzhou (the above two are recorded)

郢州興陽義深禪師

Chan Master Yishen of Xingyang in Yingzhou

芭蕉山第二世住遇禪師(已上二人無機緣語句不錄)

Chan Master Yu, second-generation abbot of Mount Bajiao (the above two have no recorded encounter sayings and are not recorded)

吉州資福如寶禪師法嗣四人吉州資福貞邃禪師

Four Dharma Heirs of Chan Master Rubao of Zifu in Jizhou: Chan Master Zhensui of Zifu in Jizhou

吉州福壽和尚

The Monk Fushou of Jizhou

潭州鹿苑和尚(已上三人見錄)

The Monk Luyuan of Tanzhou (the above three are recorded)

潭州報慈德韶大師(一人無機緣語句不錄)

Great Master Deshao of Baoci in Tanzhou (one person, no recorded encounter sayings, not recorded)

汝州寶應和尚法嗣一人(即南院顒也)汝州風穴延沼禪師

One Dharma Heir of the Monk Baoying of Ruzhou (that is, Yong of Nanyuan): Chan Master Yanzhao of Fengxue in Ruzhou

汝州西院思明禪師法嗣一人見錄郢州興陽歸靜禪師

One recorded Dharma Heir of Chan Master Siming of the West Courtyard in Ruzhou: Chan Master Guijing of Xingyang in Yingzhou

韶州慧林鴻究禪師法嗣一人見錄韶州靈瑞和尚

One recorded Dharma Heir of Chan Master Hongjiu of Huilin in Shaozhou: The Monk Lingrui of Shaozhou

懷讓第八世六人

Eighth Generation from Huairang, Six People

汝州風穴延沼禪師法嗣四人汝州廣慧真禪師

Four Dharma Heirs of Chan Master Yanzhao of Fengxue in Ruzhou: Chan Master Zhen of Guanghui in Ruzhou

汝州首山省念禪師(已上二人見錄)

Chan Master Xingnian of Shoushan in Ruzhou (the above two are recorded)

鳳翔長興和尚

The Monk Changxing of Fengxiang

潭州靈泉和尚(已上二人無機緣語句不錄)

The Monk Lingquan of Tanzhou (the above two have no recorded encounter sayings and are not recorded)

潭州報慈歸真大師德韶法嗣二人蘄州三角山志謙禪師

Two Dharma Heirs of Great Master Guizhen Deshao of Baoci in Tanzhou: Chan Master Zhiqian of Mount Sanjiao in Qizhou

郢州興陽詞鐸禪師

Chan Master Ciduo of Xingyang in Yingzhou

懷讓第九世一人

Ninth Generation from Huairang, One Person

汝州首山省念禪師法嗣一人見錄汾州善昭禪師(一人見錄讚頌附卷末)

One recorded Dharma Heir of Chan Master Xingnian of Shoushan in Ruzhou: Chan Master Shanzhao of Fenzhou (one person is recorded, with eulogies attached at the end of the fascicle)

曹谿別出第二世三十人

Second Generation of the Separate Branch from Caoxi, Thirty People

羅浮山定真和尚法嗣一人羅浮山靈運禪師(一人無機緣語句不錄)

One Dharma Heir of the Monk Dingzhen of Mount Luofu: Chan Master Lingyun of Mount Luofu (one person, no recorded encounter sayings, not recorded)

制空山道進和尚法嗣荊州玄覺禪師(一人無機緣語句不錄)

Dharma Heir of the Monk Daojin of Mount Zhikong: Chan Master Xuanjue of Jingzhou (one person, no recorded encounter sayings, not recorded)

韶州下回田善快和尚法嗣一人善悟禪師(一人無機緣語句不錄)

One Dharma Heir of the Monk Shankuai of Xiahuitian in Shaozhou: Chan Master Shanwu (one person, no recorded encounter sayings, not recorded)

司空山本淨和尚法嗣一人中使楊光庭(一人無機緣語句不錄)

One Dharma Heir of the Monk Benjing of Mount Sikong: Court Envoy Yang Guangting (one person, no recorded encounter sayings, not recorded)

緣素和尚法嗣二人韶州小道進禪師

Two Dharma Heirs of the Monk Yuansu: Chan Master Xiao Daojin of Shaozhou