[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) › [大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b) › 1.31 # 大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.31 大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.31) 法雲杲和尚，遍歷諸家門庭，到圓通璣道者會中，入室次，舉趙州問投子：「大死底人却活時如何？」子云：「不許夜行，投明須到，意作麼生？」杲曰：「恩大難酬。」圓通大稱賞之。後數日舉立僧秉拂，機思遲鈍，閧堂大笑，杲有慚色，次日特為大眾茶，安茶具在案上，慚無以自處，偶打翻茶具，瓢子落地跳數跳，悟得答話，機鋒迅捷無敢當者。復至真淨處，因看祖師偈云：「心同虛空界，示等虛空法，證得虛空時，無是無非法。」豁然大悟。後出世時，上堂小參常謂人曰：「和尚紹聖三年十一月二十一日，悟得方寸禪。」又言：「和尚熙寧三年丈帳，在鳳翔府供申，當年陷了華山一十八州，爾輩茄子瓠子那裏得知。」詔住法雲，開堂日，中使捧御香至，要語錄進呈。時洪覺範在會下，令侍者請來編語錄云：「且看老和尚面。」覺範編次呈之，讀畢謂曰：「若要了死生底禪，須還和尚；若是攢花簇錦，四六文章閑言長語，須是我洪兄始得。」法雲平生氣吞諸方孩撫時輩，蓋所得有大過人處，乃敢爾也。 > Master Fayun Gao traveled through the gates of various masters. When he arrived in the assembly of Practitioner Ji of Yuantong, during entering the room, \[Ji\] cited Zhaozhou asking Touzi: '"When a person who has died the great death comes back to life, how is it?" Touzi said, "Not permitted to walk by night; he must arrive by dawn." What is the meaning?' Gao said, 'The great kindness is hard to repay.' Yuantong praised him greatly. A few days later, he was appointed standing monk to hold the whisk; his wit was sluggish, and the hall burst into loud laughter. Gao looked ashamed. The next day, he specifically prepared tea for the assembly. Placing the tea utensils on the table, feeling so ashamed he did not know where to turn, he accidentally knocked over the tea utensils; the ladle fell to the ground and bounced several times, and he realized the answering word; his sharp wits became so swift that none dared to face him. He went again to Zhenjing's place, and upon seeing the Ancestral Master's verse: 'Mind is identical with the realm of empty space, / Revealing dharmas equal to empty space; / When one realizes empty space, / There is neither right nor wrong dharma'—he experienced a great awakening. Later, when he assumed the abbacy, he would often say to people during ascending the hall and informal gatherings, 'On the twenty-first day of the eleventh month of the third year of the Shaosheng era, this monk awakened to the Chan of the mind.' He also said, 'In this monk's registration document of the third year of the Xining era submitted to Fengxiang Prefecture, that year eighteen prefectures of Mount Hua were lost; how could you eggplants and gourds know about this?' By imperial decree he became abbot of Fayun. On the day of opening the hall, an imperial envoy arrived holding imperial incense, asking for his recorded sayings to present to the throne. At that time Hong Juefan was in his assembly; \[Gao\] had an attendant invite him to come and edit the recorded sayings, saying, 'Show some consideration for this old monk's face.' When Juefan had arranged them and presented them, \[Gao\] read them through and said to him, 'If it is Chan that settles birth and death, you must grant it to this monk; but if it is assembling flowers and clustering brocades, parallel prose and leisurely long-winded talk, it must be my Brother Hong who can do it.' In his life, Fayun had the spirit to swallow all quarters and treat his contemporaries like infants, for what he attained far surpassed others, and only thus did he dare to be so. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.30) - [Next: 1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.32) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b~en-mt.1.31) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.31) · Pramāṇa