[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) › [佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003) › 10.33 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 10.33 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 10.33 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.33) 木佛不渡火。常思破竈墮。此一句亦頌了。雪竇因此木佛不渡火。常思破竈墮。嵩山破竈墮和尚不稱姓字。言行叵測隱居嵩山。一日領徒。入山塢間有廟甚靈。殿中唯安一竈。遠近祭祀不輟。烹殺物命甚多。師入廟中。以拄杖敲竈三下云。咄汝本塼土合成。靈從何來。聖從何起。恁麼烹殺物命。又乃擊三下。竈乃自傾破墮落。須臾有一人。青衣峨冠。忽然立師前設拜曰。我乃竈神。久受業報。今日蒙師說無生法。已脫此處。生在天中。特來致謝。師曰。汝本有之性非吾強言。神再拜而沒。侍者曰。某甲等久參侍和尚。未蒙指示。竈神得何徑旨。便乃生天。師曰。我只向伊道。汝本塼土合成。靈從何來。聖從何起。侍僧俱無對。師云。會麼。僧云。不會。師云。禮拜著。僧禮拜。師云。破也破也墮也墮也。侍者忽然大悟。後有僧舉似安國師。師歎云。此子會盡物我一如。竈神悟此則故是。其僧乃五蘊成身。亦云破也墮也。二俱開悟。且四大五蘊。與塼瓦泥土。是同是別。既是如此。雪竇為什麼道。杖子忽擊著。方知辜負我。因甚却成箇辜負去。只是未得拄杖子在。且道雪竇頌木佛不渡火。為什麼却引破竈墮公案。老僧直截與爾說。他意只是絕得失情塵意想。淨裸裸地。自然見他親切處也。 > "A wooden Buddha does not pass through fire; I constantly think of Pot-Breaker." This line also completes the eulogy. Because "a wooden Buddha does not pass through fire," Xuedou constantly thinks of Pot-Breaker. Master Pot-Breaker of Mount Song did not announce his name and surname; his words and deeds were unfathomable, and he lived in seclusion on Mount Song. One day he led his disciples into a mountain cove, where there was a shrine that was very efficacious. In the hall there was only an earthen cooking pot installed; near and far, sacrificial rites never ceased, and countless living creatures were cooked and killed. The Master entered the shrine, tapped the pot three times with his staff, and said: "Tsk! You were originally formed of bricks and earth: where does your numinous efficacy come from? Whence does your holiness arise, that you cook and kill living creatures like this?" He struck it three more times, and the pot tipped over, broke, and collapsed by itself. In an instant, a person wearing green clothes and a tall hat suddenly stood before the Master, bowed, and said, "I am the god of the pot. For a long time I have endured karmic retribution; today, receiving the Master's exposition of the Dharma of unproducedness, I have been released from this place and born in heaven, so I have come especially to express my thanks." The Master said, "It is your inherent nature, not my forced words." The spirit bowed again and vanished. The attendant said, "We have served and attended you, Master, for a long time, yet we have not received instruction; what direct teaching did the pot god attain, that he was born in heaven?" The Master said, "I only said to him: 'You were originally formed of bricks and earth: where does your numinous efficacy come from? Whence does your holiness arise?'" The attending monks were all speechless. The Master said, "Do you understand?" The monk said, "I do not understand." The Master said, "Make a bow." The monk bowed, and the Master said, "Broken, broken! Fallen, fallen!" The attendant suddenly experienced great awakening. Later, a monk brought this up to National Teacher Anguo. The National Teacher sighed and said, "This fellow thoroughly understands that objects and the self are of one suchness." For the pot god to awaken to this was certainly natural; the monk was formed of the five aggregates, yet he also said, "Broken, fallen!" Both attained awakening. But are the four great elements and five aggregates the same as, or different from, bricks, tiles, and earth? Since it is like this, why did Xuedou say, "When the staff suddenly strikes, only then does one know it lets me down"? Why does it turn out to be a matter of "letting down"? It is only that one has not yet gotten hold of the staff. Tell me: why did Xuedou, in eulogizing "a wooden Buddha does not pass through fire," bring in the gong'an of Pot-Breaker? This old monk will tell you straight out: his intention is simply to cut off feelings of gain and loss, emotional dust, and conceptual thoughts, completely naked and exposed; then naturally you will see his intimate place. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.32) - [Next: 10.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.34) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.10.33) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.10.33) · Pramāṇa