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# 宏智禪師廣錄 2.179

宏智禪師廣錄 2.179

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [2.179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2001.2.179)

舉疎山到溈山。便問。承師有言。有句無句。如藤倚樹。忽然樹倒藤枯。句歸何處。溈山呵呵大笑。疎云。某甲四千里。賣布單來。和尚何得相弄。溈喚侍者。取錢還者上座。遂囑云。向後有獨眼龍。為子點破去在。後到明昭舉前話。昭云。溈山可謂。頭正尾正。只是不遇知音。疎復問。樹倒藤枯。句歸何處。昭云。更使溈山笑轉新。疎於言下有省。乃云。溈山元來笑裡有刀。頌曰。

> Shushan arrived at Guishan and immediately asked: "I have heard that the master has said: 'Phrased or unphrased, like wisteria leaning on a tree.' If suddenly the tree falls and the wisteria withers, where does the phrase return?"  
> Guishan laughed aloud: "Ha, ha!"  
> Shushan said: "I sold my cloth mat and traveled four thousand li to come here. Why does the Venerable make sport of me?"  
> Guishan called his attendant: "Take money and return it to this senior monk."  
> Then he instructed him: "Later on, a one-eyed dragon will point it out for you."  
> Later he went to Mingzhao and cited the previous conversation.  
> Mingzhao said: "Guishan may be said to be right from head to tail, but he simply did not encounter an intimate knower."  
> Shushan asked again: "When the tree falls and the wisteria withers, where does the phrase return?"  
> Mingzhao said: "It would make Guishan's laughter turn anew."  
> Shushan had an awakening at these words and said: "Originally, Guishan had a knife within his laughter."  
> An ode says:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2001~en-mt.2.179) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [虛堂和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.4.45) — Classical Chinese
- [萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.6.28) — Classical Chinese

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