[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) › 1.120 # 撫州曹山元證禪師語錄 1.120 撫州曹山元證禪師語錄 1.120 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.120) 三者沙門異類（後云披毛截角），謂先知有本分事了，喪盡今時一切凡聖因果德行，始得就體一般，名為獨立底人，亦名沙門稱斷事，始得表裡情忘三世事盡，得無遺漏，得名佛邊事，亦云一手指天地，亦云具大沙門，轉却沙門稱斷邊事，不入諸勝報位，始得名為沙門行，亦云沙門轉身，亦云披毛戴角，亦喚作水牯牛，恁麼時節始得入異類，亦云色類邊事。所以古人道：頭長三尺、頸短（吉祥宗祖手澤中不云長）二寸。秖是這箇道理，不得別會。 > The third is the śramaṇa's different species (later called 'wearing fur and sporting horns'): meaning that having first known the existence of the fundamental matter, one completely destroys all present ordinary and sagely causes and effects, virtues and practices, and only then attains identity with the substance; this is named an independent person, and is also named the śramaṇa's affair of being praised as severed; only then are internal and external sentiments forgotten, the matters of the three times exhausted, and the absence of any remnant attained; this is named a matter on the Buddha's side, and is also called pointing one finger to heaven and earth, and also called being endowed with the great śramaṇa; turning away from the matters on the śramaṇa's side of being praised as severed and not entering the various superior reward-stages is only then named the śramaṇa's conduct, and is also called the śramaṇa's turning around, and also called wearing fur and sporting horns, and also called the water buffalo; at such a time one only then can enter the different species, which is also called a matter on the side of form-species. Therefore the ancients said: 'The head is three feet long, the neck is two inches short' (in the ancestral master Jixiang's autograph it does not say 'long'). It is simply this principle; one must not understand it otherwise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.119) - [Next: 1.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.121) - [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.1.120) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.120) · Pramāṇa