[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) › [黃龍慧南禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1993) › 1.16 # 黃龍慧南禪師語錄 1.16 黃龍慧南禪師語錄 1.16 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1993.1.16) 師初入寺，上堂云：「歸宗上寺，是大禪河，既是禪河，豈無釣客？莫有問話者麼？」良久無人問，師乃去：「頭角住多無獬豸，羽毛雖眾少鴛鴦。夫微妙大法身，故聽而不聞、視而不見矣；清淨無師智，豈思而得、學而能哉？然不有提唱，孰辨宗由；不有問答，孰明邪正？如今長老陞堂提唱，眾中又無人問，既無人問亦無答者，宗由邪正若為明辨？若有人辨得邪正，出來推倒禪床，喝散大眾，也與衲僧出氣；若辨不得，來年更有新條在，惱亂春風卒未休。」下座。 > When the Master first entered the monastery, he ascended the hall and said, "Guizong Superior Monastery is a great river of Chan. Since it is a river of Chan, how could it lack anglers? Is there anyone who would ask a question?" After a long pause, no one asked. The Master then continued: "Horns may dwell in abundance, but none belong to the xiezhi; feathers and plumage may be numerous, yet few are the mandarin ducks. The wondrous and subtle great dharmakāya—one listens for it without hearing, gazes at it without seeing. How could the pristine, teacherless wisdom be attained through thinking or mastered through learning? Yet without presenting and advocating \[the teaching\], who could discern the ancestral lineage? Without questions and answers, who could clarify the heterodox and the orthodox? Now the elder has mounted the hall to present and advocate, but among the assembly there is still no one who asks. Since there is no one who asks and no one who answers, how are the lineage and the heterodox or orthodox to be clearly distinguished? If someone can discern the heterodox and orthodox, let him come forward, overturn the Chan seat, and shout to scatter the great assembly—that too would vent the patch-robed monks' indignation! If you cannot discern them, next year there will be yet newer regulations, troubling the spring breeze without end." He descended from the seat. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1993.1.15) - [Next: 1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1993.1.17) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1993.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1993~en-mt.1.16) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1993.1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1993.1.16) · Pramāṇa