大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.21

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慈照聰禪師，首山之子，咸平中住襄州石門。一日太守以私意笞辱之，暨歸眾僧迎於道左，首座趨前問訊曰：「太守無辜屈辱和尚如此。」慈照以手指地云：「平地起骨堆，隨指湧一堆土。」太守聞之，令人削去，復湧如初，後太守全家死於襄州。又僧問：「深山巖崖中，還有佛法也無？」照云：「有。」進云：「如何是深山巖崖中佛法？」照云：「奇怪石頭形似虎，火燒松樹勢如龍。」無盡居士愛其語，而《石門錄》獨不載二事，此皆妙喜親見，無盡居士說。

Chan Master Cizhao Cong, a spiritual son of Shoushan, dwelt at Shimen in Xiangzhou during the Xianping era. One day, the prefect, out of private malice, flogged and humiliated him. When he returned, the assembly of monks met him at the left of the road, and the head monk hurried forward to greet him, saying: 'The prefect has unjustly humiliated the Reverend like this without fault!' Cizhao pointed to the ground with his finger and said: 'A mound of bones rises from level ground!'—and following his finger, a mound of earth surged up. When the prefect heard of it, he sent people to scrape it away, but it surged up again as before; later, the prefect's entire family died in Xiangzhou. Furthermore, a monk asked: 'Deep within the mountains and craggy cliffs, is there still the Buddha Dharma or not?' Zhao said: 'There is.' [The monk] advanced and said: 'What is the Buddha Dharma deep within the mountains and craggy cliffs?' Zhao said: 'Strange stones shaped like tigers; / Fire-burnt pine trees with the posture of dragons.' Layman Wujin loved these words, but the *Shimen Records* alone does not contain these two matters; these were both heard directly by Miaoxi as told by Layman Wujin.