[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) › [虛堂和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000) › 9.126 # 虛堂和尚語錄 9.126 虛堂和尚語錄 9.126 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.126) 解夏夜參，僧出眾云：「今夜小參不問話。」師云：「甕裏何曾走却鼈？」僧問：「九旬禁足魚投網，三月安居鳥入籠，生殺盡時蠶作繭，如何透得者三重，此意如何？」師云：「一槌擊作百雜碎。」僧云：「若恁麼，性燥衲僧，無出和尚。」師云：「適之主丈子不在手。」僧云：「如何是九旬禁足魚投網？」師云：「新婦騎驢阿家牽。」僧云：「如何是三月安居鳥入籠？」師云：「向來披岳頂，今已遍神州。」僧云：「如何是生殺盡時蠶作繭？」師云：「語是心苗。」僧云：「如何是透得者三重？」師云：「魚眼裏針線。」僧云：「記得洞山和尚示眾云：『秋初夏末，兄弟家東去西去，直須向萬里無寸草處去。』此意如何？」師云：「鷺鷥股裏多割肉。」僧云：「後來有僧，舉似瀏陽菴主，菴主云：『何不道出門便是草？』又作麼生？」師云：「秤尾星邊較重輕。」僧云：「洞山聞得乃云：『大唐國裏，能有幾人？』為復是肯他？不肯他？」師云：「買帽相頭。」僧云：「只如新建千僧堂已自畢工，兄弟家還有東去西去底麼？」師云：「臨時包裹。」僧禮拜，師云：「須是如此始得。」 > At the informal gathering on the night of concluding the summer retreat, a monk came out of the assembly and said: "Tonight's informal gathering does not ask questions." The Master said: "When has a turtle ever escaped from a jar?" The monk asked: "Ninety days of restricted steps is a fish cast into a net; three months of peaceful dwelling is a bird entering a cage; when life and death are exhausted, the silkworm makes a cocoon. How does one penetrate these three layers? What is the meaning of this?" The Master said: "One strike of the mallet smashes it into a hundred fragments." The monk said: "If so, then among hot-tempered patch-robed monks, none surpasses the Upādhyāya." The Master said: "Just now the staff was not in my hand." The monk said: "What is the ninety days of restricted steps being a fish cast into a net?" The Master said: "The bride rides the donkey, and the mother-in-law leads it." The monk said: "What is the three months of peaceful dwelling being a bird entering a cage?" The Master said: "Formerly draping the mountain peaks, it now pervades the Divine Land." The monk said: "What is when life and death are exhausted, the silkworm makes a cocoon?" The Master said: "Words are the sprout of the mind." The monk said: "What is penetrating these three layers?" The Master said: "Needle and thread in a fish's eye." The monk said: "It is recorded that Venerable Dongshan instructed the assembly, saying: 'At the beginning of autumn and the end of summer, brothers, going east or going west, you must go directly to the place where there is not an inch of grass for ten thousand miles.' What is the meaning of this?" The Master said: "Cutting much flesh from the egret's thigh." The monk said: "Later, a monk brought this up to the hut master of Liuyang, and the hut master said, 'Why not say, as soon as you step out the door, there is grass?' How about this?" The Master said: "Weighing light and heavy beside the star mark at the tail of the steelyard." The monk said: "Dongshan heard of this and said, 'In the great Tang realm, how many people could there be \[like this\]?' Did he approve of him or not approve of him?" The Master said: "Buying a hat to suit the head." The monk said: "As the newly built Thousand Monks Hall has already been completed, are there any brothers going east or going west?" The Master said: "Packing bundles when the time comes." The monk bowed. The Master said: "It must be like this before it will do." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.125) - [Next: 9.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.127) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000~en-mt.9.126) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.126) · Pramāṇa