[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) › [袁州仰山慧寂禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1990) › 1.35 # 袁州仰山慧寂禪師語錄 1.35 袁州仰山慧寂禪師語錄 1.35 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1990.1.35) 陸希聲相公欲謁師，先作此○相封呈。師開封，於相下面書云：「不思而知，落第二頭；思而知之，落第三首。」遂封回。公見即入山，師乃門迎。公纔入門，便問：「三門俱開，從何門入？」師云：「從信門入。」公至法堂，又問：「不出魔界，便入佛界時如何？」師以拂子倒點三下，公便設禮。又問：「和尚還持戒否？」師云：「不持戒。」云：「還坐禪否？」師云：「不坐禪。」公良久。師云：「會麼？」云：「不會。」師云：「聽老僧一頌：滔滔不持戒，兀兀不坐禪，釅茶三兩椀，意在钁頭邊。」師却問：「承聞相公看經得悟是否？」云：「弟子因看《涅槃經》有云『不斷煩惱而入涅槃』，得箇安樂處。」師竪起拂子，云：「祇如這箇作麼生入？」云：「入之一字也不消得。」師云：「入之一字不為相公。」公便起去。（法燈云：「上座！且道入之一字為甚麼人？」又云：「相公且莫煩惱。」雪竇顯於仰山舉拂處別云：「拂子到某甲手裏也。」又別後語云：「我將謂爾是箇俗漢。」） > Minister Lu Xisheng wished to visit the Master. First, he drew this circle figure ○, sealed it, and presented it. The Master broke the seal and wrote beneath the figure: "To know it without thinking falls into the second head; to know it by thinking falls into the third category." He then sealed it and sent it back. Seeing it, the minister immediately entered the mountain. The Master welcomed him at the gate. As soon as the minister entered the gate, he asked, "When all three gates are open, through which gate does one enter?" The Master said, "Enter through the gate of faith." The minister reached the Dharma hall and asked again, "How is it when one does not leave the realm of demons, yet immediately enters the realm of Buddhas?" The Master tapped three times downward with his fly-whisk, and the minister bowed. He asked again, "Does the upādhyāya still keep the precepts?" The Master said, "I do not keep the precepts." He said, "Do you still sit in meditation?" The Master said, "I do not sit in meditation." The minister remained silent for a long time. The Master said, "Do you understand?" He said, "I do not understand." The Master said, "Listen to an old monk's verse: / In a great torrent, not keeping precepts; / Immovable, not sitting in meditation; / Two or three bowls of strong tea, / My intention is beside the mattock." The Master then asked, "I have heard that the minister attained awakening through reading the sutras; is that so?" He said, "Because your disciple read the Nirvāṇa Sūtra, which says, 'Entering nirvāṇa without severing the defilements,' I attained a place of peace and joy." The Master held up his fly-whisk and said, "Just as to this, how does one enter?" He said, "The single word 'enter' is not needed either." The Master said, "The single word 'enter' is not for the minister." The minister then got up and left. (Fadeng said, "Sthaviras! Tell me, for what person is the single word 'enter'?" He also said, "Minister, for now do not be distressed." Xuedou Xian provided an alternative word at Yangshan's holding up the fly-whisk: "The fly-whisk has come into my hands." He also provided an alternative word for the later phrase: "I would have thought you were an ordinary layman.") > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1990.1.34) - [Next: 1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1990.1.36) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1990.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1990~en-mt.1.35) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1990.1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1990.1.35) · Pramāṇa