[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) › [如淨和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a) › 2.48 # 如淨和尚語錄 2.48 如淨和尚語錄 2.48 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.48) 冬夜小參。長至迎新。如何話會。記得黃面比丘道。如破鏡鳥以毒樹果抱為其子。子成父母皆遭其食。好箇消息。今夜天童。乞食見小利。未免𢬵身捨命。將現前大眾。作枚毒樹果。念一道真言。抱捕去也。類我類我。出來出來。舉拂子云。看。出來了也。有能食其父母者麼。可謂知恩報恩。方堪傳授。其或未然。第二頭相見。異種靈苗火裡栽。鐵花無影樹頭開。驀然結箇團圝果。舉似時人收得來。於是轉作龍眼茘枝甘蔗蒲桃。元屬自己家園。普請自家咬嚼。吞也得吐也得。剔團圝也得。百雜碎也得。有也得無也得。恁麼也得。不恁麼也得。恁麼不恁麼總得。總不得也得。咄。狼藉滿地。笑殺傍觀。且道。如何收拾得。誰在畫樓沽酒處。相邀來喫趙州茶。 > Minor convocation on the winter solstice night: > “The winter solstice welcomes the new; how to speak of it? I remember the yellow-faced bhikṣu saying, ‘Like the Pojing bird, which embraces the fruit of a poisonous tree as its child; when the child is grown, the parents are both devoured by it.’ Fine news! Tonight Tiantong begs for food and sees small gain; inevitably risking his body and giving up his life, he takes the present assembly as fruits of the poisonous tree. Chanting a spell, he embraces and captures them: ‘Resemble me! Resemble me! Come out, come out!’” > Raising the whisk, he said: “Look! They have come out! Is there anyone who can devour their parents? Such a one can be said to know kindness and repay kindness, only then worthy of being transmitted the teaching. If not yet so, we shall meet at the second level: > An extraordinary seed of wondrous sprout is planted in the fire; > Iron flowers without shadow bloom on the treetop. > Suddenly bearing a whole, round fruit, > I present it to the people of the times, who can gather it in. > Thereupon it turns into longans, lychees, sugarcanes, and grapes, originally belonging to one’s own garden. I invite you all to chew on it yourselves. Swallowing is fine, spitting out is fine; making it whole and round is fine, breaking it into a hundred pieces is fine; existence is fine, non-existence is fine; being like this is fine, not being like this is fine; both being like this and not being like this are altogether fine; none of it being fine is also fine! Bah! Scattered all over the ground, laughing onlookers to death! And tell me, how to gather it up? > Who is at the painted tower where wine is bought, > Inviting each other to come drink Zhaozhou’s tea?” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.47) - [Next: 2.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.49) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a~en-mt.2.48) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.48) · Pramāṇa