楊岐方會和尚後錄 1.13

1.13

Ascending the hall, a monk asked: "The master mounts the precious seat, and the fourfold assembly attends the gathering. Please, Master, bring up and proclaim the real meaning of the coming from the West." The master said: "The clouds part and the mountain peaks are elegant; the waters reach the four seas and broaden." [The monk] advanced and said: "Having already received the master's instruction in one phrase, today I have heard what was never heard before." The master said: "What phrase do you say beneath your feet?" The monk said: "If I do not offer three prostrations, how can my master's dynamic function be revealed?" The master said: "What else is there?" The monk made a prostration. The master said: "Remember this monk's topic of discussion." [A monk] asked: "The ancient sages had eighty-four thousand Dharma gates, and every gate sees the truth; why does the student meet with obstruction at every turn?" The master said: "Why must you back down and yield of your own accord?" The monk said: "At the critical juncture, please, Master, bring it up." The master said: "The bare pillar jumps up to the Thirty-Three Heavens." The monk said: "Removing the Buddha hall and doing away with the table mountain, how far is it beneath your feet to the Western Heavens?" The master said: "Yangqi has been floored by your question." The monk said: "I had thought you had no nostrils." The master said: "Thirty years later, your own face will turn red." The master then said: "'The wind does not whistle through the branches; the rain does not break the clods'—this is the season for worldly fellows. What is the patched-robed monk's phrase that corresponds to the time and season?" He then struck the meditation bench once and said: "Wait until Maitreya descends to be born!"