[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) › [撫州曹山元證禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a) › 1.113 # 撫州曹山元證禪師語錄 1.113 撫州曹山元證禪師語錄 1.113 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.113) 時稠布衲問：「水牯牛是甚麼墮？」曰：「披毛戴角是沙門墮。」「不受食是甚麼墮？」曰：「是尊貴墮。」「不斷聲色是甚麼墮？」曰：「是隨類墮。」師又曰：「若是言語中異類，則是往來言語盡是類。所以南泉道：『智不到處，切忌道著，道著則頭角生。』喚作如如，早是變也。直須向異中行。如今須向異中道取異中事，夫語中無語，始得若是。南泉病時，有人問：『和尚百年後向甚麼處去？』泉曰：『我向山下檀越家，作一頭水牯牛去。』『某甲擬隨和尚去。還得麼？』泉曰：『若隨我，含一莖草來。』」　揀曰：「這箇是沙門轉身語，所以道，汝擬近，銜一莖草來親近渠，是呼為無漏，始堪供養渠。」 > At that time Monk Chou asked, "What kind of fall is the water buffalo?" \[The master\] said, "Wearing fur and sporting horns is the śramaṇa's fall." "What kind of fall is not receiving food?" He said, "It is the fall of the noble and exalted." "What kind of fall is not severing sound and form?" He said, "It is the fall according with kind." The master also said, "If it is a different species in speech, then speech coming and going is entirely of a kind. Therefore Nanquan said, 'Where wisdom does not reach, be most careful not to speak of it; if you speak of it, head and horns will sprout.' Calling it 'suchness' is already changing it. One must directly walk within difference. Now one must speak of the matter within difference toward difference. One must have no words within words; only then is it like this. When Nanquan was ill, someone asked, 'After a hundred years, Venerable Sir, where will you go?' Nanquan said, 'I will go down the mountain to a patron's house to become a water buffalo.' \[The questioner said,\] 'I intend to follow you, Venerable Sir. May I?' Nanquan said, 'If you follow me, bring a stalk of grass in your mouth.'" Jian said, "This is the śramaṇa's turning-around phrase. Therefore it is said: if you intend to approach, hold a stalk of grass in your mouth to come close to him; this is called being without outflows, and only then is it fit to make an offering to him." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.112) - [Next: 1.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.114) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a~en-mt.1.113) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [撫州曹山本寂禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987b.2.34) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.113) · Pramāṇa