[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) › 9.24 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.24 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.24 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.24) 見之不取。思之千里。正當嶮處都不能使。等他道爭奈老僧何。好與本分草料。當時若下得這手脚。他必須有後語。二人只解放不解收。見之不取。早是白雲萬里。更說什麼思之千里。好箇斑斑爪牙未備。是則是箇大蟲。也解藏牙伏爪。爭奈不解咬人。君不見。大雄山下忽相逢。落落聲光皆振地。百丈一日問黃檗云。什麼處來。檗云。山下採菌子來。丈云。還見大蟲麼。檗便作虎聲。丈於腰下取斧作斫勢。檗約住便掌。丈至晚上堂云。大雄山下有一虎。汝等諸人出入切須好看。老僧今日親遭一口。後來溈山問仰山。黃檗虎話作麼生。仰云。和尚尊意如何。溈山云。百丈當時合一斧斫殺。因什麼到如此。仰山云。不然。溈山云。子又作麼生。仰山云。不唯騎虎頭。亦解收虎尾。溈山云。寂子甚有嶮崖之句。雪竇引用明前面公案。聲光落落振於大地也。這箇些子轉變自在。要句中有出身之路。大丈夫見也無。還見麼。收虎尾兮捋虎鬚。也須是本分。任爾收虎尾捋虎鬚。未免一時穿却鼻孔。 > 'Seeing it and not taking it; pondering it, a thousand miles off.' Right at the precipitous place, neither could use it. Waiting for him to say: 'What can you do about this old monk?'—he should have given him his proper measure of fodder! If he had employed this method at that time, the other would certainly have had a subsequent word. The two only knew how to release, not how to capture. 'Seeing it and not taking it'—already it is ten thousand miles of white clouds; what more to speak of 'pondering it, a thousand miles off'? 'What a fine striped beast! Its claws and teeth are not yet complete.' True, it is a tiger, and it knows how to conceal its teeth and hide its claws, but lamentably it does not know how to bite people. 'Do you not see: under Mount Daxiong, they suddenly meet; clear and distinct, sound and light both shake the earth.' One day Baizhang asked Huangbo: 'Where have you come from?' Huangbo said: 'I have come from gathering mushrooms down the mountain.' Baizhang said: 'Did you see the tiger?' Huangbo then made the sound of a tiger. Baizhang took an axe from his waist and made a chopping gesture; Huangbo held him back and gave him a slap. In the evening, Baizhang went up to the hall and said: 'At the foot of Mount Daxiong there is a tiger; all of you must watch out carefully when going out and coming in. This old monk was personally bitten once today.' Later, Guishan asked Yangshan: 'What about Huangbo's tiger conversation?' Yangshan said: 'What is your venerated opinion, Venerable?' Guishan said: 'At that time Baizhang should have killed it with a single blow of the axe. Why did it end up like this?' Yangshan said: 'Not so.' Guishan said: 'What do you say?' Yangshan said: 'Not only did he ride the tiger's head, he also knew how to take hold of the tiger's tail.' Guishan said: 'Jizi, you have truly precipitous phrases.' Xuedou cited this to clarify the preceding gong'an. The sound and light are clear and distinct, shaking the great earth. This little bit of turning and shifting is completely free; within the phrase there must be an escape route. 'Has the great man seen it or not?' Do you see it yet? 'Taking hold of the tiger's tail, stroking the tiger's whiskers.' It must also be of one's own proper share. Even if you take hold of the tiger's tail and stroke the tiger's whiskers, you inevitably have your nostrils pierced at the same time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.23) - [Next: 9.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.25) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.9.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.24) · Pramāṇa