虛堂和尚語錄 8.93

8.93

Ascending the hall, he cited: "When Jiashan resided at Helin in Jingkou, a monk asked: 'What is the Dharma-body?' Jiashan said: 'The Dharma-body has no form.' 'What is the Dharma-eye?' Jiashan said: 'The Dharma-eye has no flaw.' At that time Daowu, who was seated below, burst out laughing. Jiashan stepped down from his seat, invited Daowu, and asked: 'In answering this monk's words just now, there must have been something wrong; I hope you will instruct me.' Daowu said: 'Though equal as someone who has left the world, the upādhyāya does not yet have a teacher.' Jiashan said: 'Can you speak of it for me?' Daowu said: 'I cannot speak of it. From here, go to Huating; there is Upādhyāya Chuanzi, who can clarify this.' Thereupon he dispersed the assembly and went, and so forth." The Master took it up and said: "A board-carrying fellow cannot be turned back even by ten thousand oxen. What Dharma-body without form or Dharma-eye without flaw are you talking about? He should have taken his sitting mat and struck him. Not only would that have cut off Daowu's tongue, it would also have spared Jiashan from being knocked into the water. Do you understand?" He struck with his staff: "'The sound of a spring after midnight, the color of the mountains at sunset.'"