[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1986b) › 1.59 # 瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄 1.59 瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄 1.59 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1986b.1.59) 師與泰首座冬節喫菓子次，乃問：「有一物，上拄天，下拄地，黑似漆，常在動用中，動用中收不得。」且道：「過在甚麼處？」泰云：「過在動用中。」（同安顯別云：「不知。」）師喚侍者，掇退菓卓。（五祖戒別首座云：「朝來更獻楚王看。」瑯琊覺云：「若不是洞山老人，焉能辨得？雖然如是，洞山猶欠一著在。」溈山哲云：「諸人還知洞山落處麼？若也不知，徃往作是非得失會去。」山僧道：「這果子，非但首座不得喫。假使盡大地人來，亦不得正眼覰著。」雲蓋本云：「洞山雖有打破虛空鉗鎚，而無補綴底針線。待伊道過在動用中，但道請首座喫果子，泰首座若是箇衲僧，喫了也須吐出。」南堂靜云：「洞山坐籌帷幄，決勝千里。泰首座通身是口，有理難伸。」溈山果云：「洞山壓良為賤，泰首座有理難伸。山僧路見不平，要為雪恥。當時纔見與麼問，只向道，靈山授記未到如此。待他擬議，拈果子劈面便擲，不唯塞斷咽喉，免見後人妄生卜度。」淨慈昌云：「洞山雖然掇得果卓去，要且塞泰首座口不得。」） > While eating fruit with Head Monk Tai during the winter solstice, the Master asked, "There is a thing: above, it supports the heavens; below, it supports the earth. Black as lacquer, it is constantly amidst dynamic functioning, yet within dynamic functioning it cannot be contained. Now tell me: where does its fault lie?" > Tai said, "The fault lies within dynamic functioning." (Tong'an Xian commented alternatively, "I do not know.") > The Master called the attendant to clear away the fruit table. (Wuzu Jie spoke on the head monk's behalf, saying, "Come morning, I would present it again for the King of Chu to see." Langye Jiao said, "Were it not for old man Dongshan, who could have discerned it? Even so, Dongshan was still lacking a single move." Guishan Zhe said, "Do all of you know where Dongshan landed? If you do not know, you will often understand it in terms of right and wrong, gain and loss." This mountain monk says, "Not only is this fruit not for the head monk to eat—even if people from the entire great earth were to come, they would not be able to catch a direct glimpse of it." Yunggai Ben said, "Although Dongshan has the pincers and hammer to smash empty space, he lacks the needle and thread to patch it up. Waiting for him to say, 'The fault lies within dynamic functioning,' he should simply have said, 'Please, Head Monk, eat some fruit.' If Head Monk Tai were a true patch-robed monk, having eaten it he would have had to vomit it out." Nantang Jing said, "Dongshan sits devising strategies within the command tent, deciding victory a thousand miles away. Head Monk Tai's whole body is a mouth, yet he has a reason he cannot express." Guishan Guo said, "Dongshan oppresses the good into servitude, and Head Monk Tai has a reason he cannot express. Seeing injustice on the road, this mountain monk wants to clear his name. At that time, as soon as one saw him ask thus, one should merely have said to him, 'The bestowal of prophecy on Vulture Peak did not reach this far.' Waiting for him to deliberate, take the fruit and fling it straight at his face—not only stopping up his throat, but preventing later people from giving rise to delusional reckonings." Jingci Chang said, "Although Dongshan managed to clear away the fruit table, he nevertheless failed to stop up Head Monk Tai's mouth.") > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1986b.1.58) - [Next: 1.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1986b.1.60) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1986b.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1986b~en-mt.1.59) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1986b.1.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1986b.1.59) · Pramāṇa