瑞州洞山良价禪師語錄 1.86

1.86

A monk asked, "The Master usually teaches students to travel the bird's path. I wonder, what is the bird's path?" The Master said, "Not encountering a single person." The monk said, "How does one travel it?" The Master said, "Underfoot must be completely selfless." The monk said, "As for traveling the bird's path, is that not one's original face?" The Master said, "Why is the ācārya upside down?" The monk said, "Where am I upside down?" The Master said, "If not upside down, why do you mistake a servant for the master?" The monk said, "What is the original face?" The Master said, "Not traveling the bird's path." (Later, Jiashan Shan asked a monk, "Where have you come from?" The monk said, "From Dongshan." Jiashan said, "What words and phrases does Dongshan give to instruct his disciples?" The monk said, "He usually teaches students to study the three paths." Jiashan said, "What are the three paths?" The monk said, "The profound path, the bird's path, and extending the hands." Jiashan said, "Are there truly these words?" The monk said, "There truly are." Jiashan said, "Holding a thousand miles of paper money, the person of the Way under the trees grieves." Fushan Yuan said, "Were it not for the yellow leaves falling, how would one know it is autumn?")