[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) › 9.5 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.5 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 9.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.5) 麈中麈。君看取。衲僧家須是具麈中麈底眼。有麈中麈底頭角。有機關有作略。任是插翼猛虎戴角大蟲。也只得全身遠害。這僧當時放身便倒自道。我是麈。下一箭。走三步。山云。看箭。僧便倒。山云。侍者拕出這死漢。這僧便走也甚好。爭奈只走得三步。五步若活。成群趁虎。雪竇道。只恐五步須死。當時若跳得出五步外活時。便能成群去趁虎。其麈中麈。角利如鎗。虎見亦畏之而走。麈為鹿中王。常引群鹿。趁虎入別山。雪竇後面頌藥山亦有當機出身處。正眼從來付獵人。藥山如能射獵人。其僧如麈。雪竇是時因上堂。舉此語束為一團話。高聲道一句云。看箭。坐者立者。一時起不得。 > "The elk among elks, look at it, sir!" Patch-robed monks must possess the eye of the elk among elks, and have the head and horns of the elk among elks, possessing dynamic devices and active strategies. Even an eagle-winged ferocious tiger or a horned beast can only save its whole body and keep far away from harm. This monk at that time let his body fall straight down, saying to himself, "I am the elk." "Releasing one arrow, he runs three paces": Yaoshan said, "Watch the arrow!" and the monk fell down; Yaoshan said, "Attendant, drag this dead fellow out!" That this monk then ran away was quite good, yet he managed only to run three paces. "If he lives at five paces, he will chase the tiger with the herd": Xuedou said he feared only that at five paces he must die. If at that time he had leaped beyond five paces and lived, he could have joined the herd to chase the tiger. The horns of the elk among elks are as sharp as lances; when a tiger sees them, it too fears them and runs away. The elk is the king among deer; it constantly leads the herd of deer to chase tigers into other mountains. Later in the verse, Xuedou also shows that Yaoshan possessed a way to escape on the dynamic occasion: "From the start, the true eye has been entrusted to the hunter." Yaoshan was like a hunter skilled at shooting, while that monk was like the elk. At that time, when Xuedou ascended the hall, he brought up these words, gathered them into a single bundle of talk, and loudly called out a single phrase, saying, "Watch the arrow!" Those sitting and standing were all at once unable to rise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.4) - [Next: 9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.6) - [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.9.5) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.9.5) · Pramāṇa