[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) › 5.16 # 明覺禪師語錄 5.16 明覺禪師語錄 5.16 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.5.16) 黃梅散席三百載，續焰聯芳事空在，宗兮派兮生異端， 華兮葉兮太煩碎。韶陽間出多慷慨， 權要雄雄曾絕待，曲木據位知幾何，利刀剪却令人愛。 近還有箇披老衲，楚甸橫身風颯颯， 鐵作一尋非等閑，壁立千仞須摧踏。報君知，江南江北徒纍纍， 鼇轉海運兮纖麟片甲， 雷奔電驅兮寸毫尺氂。斯言勿謂存規矩， 平不留兮險非取，周行獨立如便休，誰振宏綱照千古。 > Three hundred years since the Huangmei assembly dispersed, / Continuing the flame and connecting the fragrance are empty matters; / Lineages and branches give rise to heterodoxies; / Blossoms and leaves are overly intricate and fragmented. / Shaoyang arose in between, full of noble fervor; / Powerful and heroic essentials once transcended all duality. / Curved pieces of wood occupying seats—who knows how many? / Cut away by a sharp knife, how delightful to see! / Recently there is another wearing an old patch-robe, / Crossing through the Chu fields, the wind soughing; / Forged of iron, eight feet tall, no ordinary fellow; / Standing like a precipice of thousands of fathoms, he must trample and crush it. / I inform you: south and north of the river, in vain they are encumbered; / The sea-turtle turns and the ocean shifts—minute scales and small shells; / Thunder rushes and lightning speeds—a tiny hair, a fraction of a thread. / Do not say these words retain rules and measures; / The flat is not retained, the perilous is not grasped. / If standing alone in the thoroughfare means one simply rests, / Who will shake the grand guideline to illuminate a thousand ages? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.5.15) - [Next: 5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.5.17) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996~en-mt.5.16) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.5.16) · Pramāṇa