[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) › 4.27 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 4.27 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 4.27 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.4.27) 長沙鹿苑招賢大師。法嗣南泉。與趙州紫胡輩同時。機鋒敏捷。有人問教。便與說教。要頌便與頌。爾若要作家相見。便與爾作家相見。仰山尋常機鋒。最為第一。一日同長沙翫月次。仰山指月云。人人盡有這箇。只是用不得。沙云恰是。便倩爾用那。仰山云。爾試用看。沙一踏踏倒仰山起云。師叔一似箇大蟲。後來人號為岑大蟲。因一日遊山歸。首座亦是他會下人。便問和尚什麼處去來。沙云。遊山來。座云。到什麼處去來。沙云。始隨芳草去。又逐落花回。須是坐斷十方底人始得。古人出入未甞不以此事為念。看他賓主互換。當機直截。各不相饒。既是遊山。為什麼却問道。到什麼處去來。若是如今禪和子。便道到夾山亭來。看他古人。無絲毫道理計較。亦無住著處。所以道。始隨芳草去。又逐落花回。首座便隨他意向他道。大似春意。沙云。也勝秋露滴芙蕖。雪竇云。謝答語。代末後語也。也落兩邊。畢竟不在這兩邊。昔有張拙秀才。看千佛名經。乃問百千諸佛。但聞其名。未審居何國土。還化物也無。沙云。黃鶴樓崔顥題詩後。秀才曾題也未。拙云。未曾題。沙云。得閑題取一篇也好。岑大蟲平生為人。直得珠回玉轉。要人當面便會。頌云。 > Master Zhaoxian of Lu Yuan in Changsha was a Dharma heir of Nanquan, contemporary with Zhaozhou and Zihu. His dynamic sharpness was agile and swift. If someone asked about the teachings, he would expound the teachings for them; if they wanted verses, he would compose verses for them; if you wanted an adept's face-to-face encounter, he would present an adept's encounter for you. Usually Yangshan's dynamic sharpness was foremost. One day, while enjoying the moon together with Changsha, Yangshan pointed at the moon and said, "Everyone has this, yet they cannot use it." Changsha said, "Exactly so; then I employ you to use it." Yangshan said, "You try using it." Changsha kicked Yangshan down with a stomp. Yangshan got up and said, "Senior Uncle is just like a tiger!" Later people called him Tiger Cen. Because one day he returned from roaming the mountains, the head monk, who was also a man in his assembly, asked, "Where has the Venerable come from?" Changsha said, "I come from roaming the mountains." The head monk said, "To what place did you go?" Changsha said, "At first I followed the fragrant grass away; / then I chased the falling flowers back." One must be a person who sits through and cuts off the ten directions before this is possible. When the ancients came and went, they never failed to keep this matter in mind. Look at how host and guest exchanged places, hitting the mark right at the moment, cutting directly, neither sparing the other. Since he was roaming the mountains, why on the contrary did the head monk ask, "To what place did you go?" If it were the Chan fellows of today, they would immediately say, "I went to the Jiashan pavilion." Look at those ancients: not a hair's breadth of principle or calculation, nor any place of fixation. Therefore it is said: "At first I followed the fragrant grass away; / then I chased the falling flowers back." The head monk then followed his meaning and said to him, "It is very much like spring's intent." Changsha said, "It also surpasses autumn dew dripping on lotus blossoms." Xuedou says, "Thanks for the answer." It is a replacement for the final word. It also falls into the two sides, yet in the end it is not in these two sides. Formerly, the scholar Zhang Zhuo was reading the Sutra of the Names of the Thousand Buddhas, and then asked, "Regarding the hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, one only hears their names, but I do not know what lands they dwell in, and whether they still transform living beings or not?" Changsha said, "After Cui Hao inscribed his poem on the Yellow Crane Tower, did you ever inscribe one, Scholar?" Zhuo said, "I have not yet inscribed one." Changsha said, "When you have leisure, it would be good to compose a poem." Tiger Cen's lifelong teaching for others was truly like revolving pearls and turning jade, wanting people to understand immediately face to face. The verse says: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.4.26) - [Next: 4.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.4.28) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.4.27) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.4.27) · Pramāṇa