[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) › 9.82 # 虛堂和尚語錄 9.82 虛堂和尚語錄 9.82 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.82) 上堂，舉：「石霜普會遷化，眾請首座住持，虔侍者云：『先師道：「休去歇去，一條白練去，一念萬年去。」明甚麼邊事？若會得則住持，若不會則不可。』座云：『明一色邊事。』虔云：『未會先師意在。』座云：『裝香來，香煙斷處，若去不得，則不會先師意。』香煙未斷，首座脫去，虔拊首座背云：『坐脫立亡者則不無，要會先師意猶未在。』」師拈云：「一人高高峯頂立，一人深深海底行，不是與人難共住，大都緇素要分明。作麼生是分明底事？」卓主丈。 > Ascending the hall, \[the Master\] brought up \[the case\]: "When Shishuang Puhui passed away, the assembly requested the head monk to become abbot. Attendant Qian said: 'Our late master said: "Stop and rest; be like a strip of pure white silk; let one thought last ten thousand years." What realm of affairs does this clarify? If you can understand it, you may be abbot; if you cannot, you may not.' The head monk said: 'It clarifies the realm of absolute sameness.' Qian said: 'You have not yet understood our late master's meaning.' The head monk said: 'Bring incense; where the incense smoke ends, if I cannot pass away, then I do not understand our late master's meaning.' Before the incense smoke ended, the head monk passed away while sitting. Qian patted the head monk on the back and said: 'Sitting down and passing away, standing up and dying—you do not lack that; but as for understanding our late master's meaning, not yet.'" The Master took this up and said: "One person stands on the highest mountain peak, one person walks on the deepest ocean bed. It is not that they are difficult to dwell with; on the whole, black and white must be distinct. What is the matter of being distinct?" He struck with his staff. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.81) - [Next: 9.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.83) - [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.9.82) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.9.82) · Pramāṇa