大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.21

1.21

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.