[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) › [明覺禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996) › 1.4 # 明覺禪師語錄 1.4 明覺禪師語錄 1.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.1.4) 師在杭州靈隱，受疏了，眾請陞座。時有僧問：「寶座先登於此日，請師一句震雷音。」師云：「徒勞側耳。」進云：「恁麼則一音普遍於沙界，大眾無不盡咸聞。」師云：「忽有人問，爾作麼生舉？」僧云：「三十年後敢為流芳。」師云：「賺了也。」師乃云：「天下絕勝之覺場，靈隱導師之廣座，暫借卑僧陞陟，實愧非材，豈敢於五百員衲子前提唱佛祖抑揚古今、衒耀見知恥他先作，假饒說得天雨四華、地分六震，於曹溪路上一點使用不著？何以？行脚高士，有把定世界、函蓋乾坤底眼，誰敢錯誤絲毫？其知有者，必共相悉。」 > When the master was at Lingyin in Hangzhou, after receiving the letter of appointment, the assembly requested him to ascend the seat. At that time a monk asked: "Today you first mount the precious seat; please, master, shake the thunderous sound with a single phrase." The master said: "It is a waste of effort to cock your ear." The monk continued: "In that case, a single sound is universal across the sands-realms, and the great assembly entirely hears it." The master said: "If someone suddenly asks you, how would you bring it up?" The monk said: "Thirty years from now, I dare spread the sweet fragrance." The master said: "You've missed it." The master then said: "This bodhimaṇḍa, exceedingly supreme under heaven, the spacious seat of the guide of Lingyin, is temporarily borrowed for this humble monk to ascend; truly I feel ashamed at having no talent. How could I dare, before five hundred patch-robed monks, proclaim the buddhas and patriarchs, praise and disparage past and present, or flaunt knowledge and understanding to shame the ancient predecessors? Even if one could speak so that heaven rains the four flowers and earth divides into the six tremors, on the road of Caoxi not a single dot of it could be put to use. Why is this? Eminent practitioners on foot have the eye that holds fast the world and covers heaven and earth; who would dare make the slightest mistake? Those who know of it must mutually understand." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.1.3) - [Next: 1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.1.5) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996~en-mt.1.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.1.4) · Pramāṇa