[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) › [萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004) › 2.15 # 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 2.15 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 2.15 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.15) 師云。狗子佛性有。狗子佛性無。兩段不同。一併拈出。正如雪竇道。一有多種二無兩般。天童要與趙州相見。故如是頌。應天真道。直鉤釣獰龍。曲鉤釣蝦䗫。後來逐氣尋香。如獵犬相似。嘈雜分疎。枯骨上有甚汁。趙州雖大開鋪席。要且只是平展商量。天童與趙州解腕。莫怪儂家不慎初。歸宗問秀才。業何經史。才云。會二十四家書體。宗向空中一點云。會麼。才云。不會。宗云。又道。會二十四家書體。永字八法也不識。刺史李渤問。三乘十二分教即不問。如何是祖師西來意。宗亦竪拳云。會麼。李云。不會。宗云。這箇措大。拳頭也不識。萬松道。翻身師子大家看。不唯狗子佛性道有道無。只這知而故犯。業識性在。也大曬顧前盻後。慎初護末。史記趙惠王。得楚和氏璧。秦昭王以十五城易之。藺相如奉璧入。秦王喜傳示美人及左右。左右皆呼萬歲。相如視王無割城之意。乃前曰。璧有瑕。請示之。王授璧。相如因持起立。倚柱髮上衝冠曰。趙王齋戒五日。使臣奉璧送書於庭。嚴大國之威。以修敬也。今見。王禮節甚倨。得璧傳示美人。似戲弄臣無割城意。故臣復取璧。必欲急臣。臣頭與璧俱碎於柱矣。王辭謝按圖割城。亦齋五日。相如使從者衣褐懷璧徑道歸趙。趙州先縱後奪。有相如手段。天童別曾有頌云。趙州道有。趙州道無。狗子佛性。天下分疎。面赤不如語直。心真必定言麁。七百甲子老禪伯。驢糞逢人換眼珠。趙州心真語直。便是直釣。元求負命魚。周文王出獵。見姜子牙磻溪之谷。去水三尺。直鉤釣魚。王異之曰。直鉤如何得魚。子牙曰。但求負命之魚。驢糞逢人換眼珠。此如相如奪璧也。佛鑑拈出槵子數珠云。諸人還見麼。良久云。此是老僧來京師。換得底。諸人各自歸堂摸𢱢看。佛鑑用槵子。趙州用驢糞。萬松既無用處。不曾移換。諸人若信得及。依舊眼在眉毛下。 > The Master said: 'A dog's buddha-nature: yes. A dog's buddha-nature: no.' Two different passages are brought out together, just as Xuedou said: 'One has many kinds; two are of no different sort.' Tiantong wanted to meet Zhaozhou, so he versified it like this. Yingtian Zhen said, 'A straight hook catches a fierce dragon; a curved hook catches a toad.' Later people, chasing smells and hunting for scents, are like hunting hounds, clamoring and bickering; what juice is there on dry bones? Although Zhaozhou opened a large shop, after all it was only a flat-out discussion. Tiantong unties Zhaozhou's wrist: 'Do not blame me for not being cautious at the start.' Guizong asked a scholar, 'What classics and histories do you specialize in?' The scholar said, 'I understand the calligraphic styles of twenty-four masters.' Guizong made a dot in the air and said, 'Do you understand?' The scholar said, 'No.' Guizong said, 'Yet you say you understand the calligraphic styles of twenty-four masters, but you don't even know the eight strokes of the character yong!' Prefect Li Bo asked, 'I do not ask about the three vehicles and twelve divisions of the teaching; what is the meaning of the Ancestral Master's coming from the West?' Guizong also held up a fist and said, 'Do you understand?' Li said, 'No.' Guizong said, 'This pedant doesn't even recognize a fist!' Wansong says: Let everyone watch the lion turn its body! Not only when it comes to saying 'has' or 'has not' regarding the dog's buddha-nature, but just this 'knowingly and deliberately transgressing' and 'the nature of karmic consciousness remaining' also greatly look before and after, cautious at the start and guarded at the end. The Records of the Grand Historian states that King Hui of Zhao obtained the jade disk of the He clan of Chu. King Zhao of Qin offered fifteen cities in exchange for it. Lin Xiangru brought the jade disk in. The King of Qin was delighted and passed it around to show his beauties and attendants; the attendants all shouted 'Ten thousand years!' Xiangru, seeing that the king had no intention of ceding the cities, stepped forward and said, 'The jade has a flaw; please let me show it to you.' The king handed him the jade. Xiangru thereupon held it and stood up, leaning against a pillar, his hair bristling against his cap in anger, saying, 'The King of Zhao fasted for five days and sent his subject bearing the jade disk to present the letter in court, out of respect for the majesty of a great state to cultivate reverence. Now I see that Your Majesty's etiquette is very arrogant. Having obtained the jade, you passed it around to show your beauties, as if trifling with me, with no intention of ceding the cities. Therefore I have taken back the jade. If you must press me, my head and the jade will both shatter against the pillar!' The king apologized and checked the map to cede the cities, and also fasted for five days. Xiangru had his attendant wear coarse clothes, conceal the jade in his bosom, and return to Zhao by a shortcut. Zhaozhou first lets go and then snatches away; he has Xiangru's method. Tiantong elsewhere had a verse: 'Zhaozhou says yes, Zhaozhou says no; / concerning the dog's buddha-nature, the whole world makes distinctions. / A red face is not as good as straight speech; / a true heart must have rough words. / An old Zen elder of seven hundred and sixty years— / meeting people, he trades donkey dung for their eyeballs.' Zhaozhou's true heart and straight speech are precisely the straight hook that originally seeks a fish that will surrender its life. When King Wen of Zhou went hunting, he saw Jiang Ziya in the Pan stream valley, three feet above the water, fishing with a straight hook. The king marveled and said, 'How can you catch fish with a straight hook?' Ziya said, 'I only seek fish that will surrender their lives.' 'Meeting people, he trades donkey dung for their eyeballs'—this is like Xiangru taking back the jade disk. Fojian held out a soapberry rosary and said, 'Do you all see it?' After a long pause, he said, 'This is what this old monk got in exchange when he came to the capital. All of you, go back to the hall and feel around!' Fojian used soapberries, Zhaozhou used donkey dung. Since Wansong has no use for them, he has not made any exchange. If you can fully believe it, your eyes remain under your eyebrows as before. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.14) - [Next: 2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.16) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004~en-mt.2.15) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [宏智禪師廣錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2001.2.41) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.15) · Pramāṇa