[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) › 6.19 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 6.19 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 6.19 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.6.19) 雪竇頌得此話極易會。大意只頌雲門機鋒。所以道。虎頭虎尾一時收。古人云。據虎頭收虎尾。第一句下明宗旨。雪竇只據欵結案。愛雲門會據虎頭。又能收虎尾。僧展兩手。門便打。是據虎頭。雲門展兩手。僧無語。門又打。是收虎尾。頭尾齊收。眼似流星。自然如擊石火。似閃電光。直得凜凜威風四百州。直得盡大地世界風颯颯地。却問。不知何太嶮。不妨有嶮處。雪竇云。放過一著。且道如今不放過時又作麼生。盡大地人。總須喫棒。如今禪和子。總道等他展手時。也還他本分草料。似則也似。是則未是。雲門不可只恁麼教爾休。也須別有事在。 > Xuedou's verse eulogy on this case is extremely easy to understand. Its overall meaning merely eulogizes Yunmen's dynamic sharpness. Therefore he says: "Grasping the tiger's head and the tiger's tail at once." An ancient said: "Holding the tiger's head, gathering in the tiger's tail; beneath the very first phrase, the ancestral purpose is made clear." Xuedou merely decides the case on the basis of the confession; he loves how Yunmen can hold the tiger's head and can also gather in the tiger's tail. When the monk spread his two hands, Yunmen immediately struck him—this is holding the tiger's head. When Yunmen spread his two hands and the monk had nothing to say, Yunmen struck him again—this is gathering in the tiger's tail. Gathering in both head and tail together, his eyes are like shooting stars; naturally it is like striking sparks from flint, like a flash of lightning. It directly brings about: "An awe-inspiring prestige across four hundred prefectures," making the wind howl soughingly throughout the great earth and the worlds. "Asking in return, who knows why it was so precipitous?" It indeed contains a precipitous point. Xuedou says: "Letting him pass this once." But tell me, nowadays when one does not let him pass, what then? Everyone on the great earth must take a beating with the staff. Nowadays Chan fellows all say: "Wait until he spreads his hands, and then return him his proper measure of fodder." It seems like it, but though it seems so, it is not yet right. It cannot be that Yunmen simply taught you to leave it at that; there must certainly be something else going on. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.6.18) - [Next: 6.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.6.20) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.6.19) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.6.19) · Pramāṇa