袁州仰山慧寂禪師語錄 1.75

1.75

Guishan brought up how Baizhang asked Huangbo where he had come from, and Huangbo said, "I have come from picking mushrooms at the foot of Mount Daxiong." Baizhang said, "Did you see the tiger?" Huangbo then made a tiger's roar, and Baizhang picked up an axe in a chopping posture. Huangbo then gave Baizhang a slap; Baizhang chuckled and went back. He ascended the hall and said to the assembly, "At the foot of Mount Daxiong there is a tiger; all of you should watch out for it carefully. This old fellow Baizhang personally suffered a bite today." He asked the Master, "How is it?" The Master said, "What do you say, upādhyāya?" Guishan said, "Baizhang should have struck it dead with a single axe-blow at that moment; why did it come to this?" The Master said, "Not so." Guishan said, "And what do you say?" The Master said, "Baizhang only knew how to ride the tiger's head, but did not know how to hold the tiger's tail." Guishan said, "You have words of sheer peril."