[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) › 2.37 # 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 2.37 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 2.37 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.2.37) 師云。德山尋常打風打雨。一日巖頭展坐具。德山以拄杖挑向階下。頭下階收坐具便行。次日上德山侍立。山云。那裏學得這虛頭來。頭云。某甲終不敢自謾。山云。汝已後向老僧頭上屙去在。父聞子健恨不殺身。見過於師方堪傳授。此問諸方謂之跨門之機。未必當初真跨門問來。昔有外道。手中藏活雀兒。問世尊曰。手中雀兒為活為死。世尊以足跨門云。汝道。吾欲出欲入。問是凡是聖。真有此理。昔日普化曾指聖僧問臨濟。且道。這箇是凡是聖。濟便喝化云。河陽新婦子。木塔老婆禪。臨濟小廝兒。却具一隻眼。濟云。這老賊。化出僧堂云。賊賊。首山云。這兩箇賊有箇正賊。且道。那箇是正賊。代云。劉盆子巖頭。問是凡是聖。德山便喝。便是與臨濟商搉。勘同來相似。頭禮拜。亦與臨濟小廝兒却具一隻眼一般。雪竇道。當時纔禮拜。劈脊便打。非唯勦絕洞山。亦乃把定豁老。此又與臨濟道這老賊同參。洞山聞舉云。若不是豁公。大難承當。佛果著語云。傍人具眼。又云。只知其一不知其二。萬松見處即不然。佛果道。洞山傍人雖具眼。只見錐頭利。萬松道。佛果和尚雖具眼。不見鑿頭方。洞山故將承當。贓誣巖頭。要發明當初禮拜有權有實。果然巖頭火到頭上。急忙撲撒道。洞山老漢不識好惡。我當時一手擡一手捺。方始點燈喫飯。兩家分明也。不見。保寧勇和尚頌云。平川走兔放蒼鷹。此頌跨門之問也。一捺便啗雙眼睛。此頌德山喝巖頭拜。毒手奪來人買去。此頌洞山著價利。奈何斤兩未分明。正是萬松道底。欲得斤兩分明麼。其實佛果萬松不爭頭高頭低。更看天童稱盤一上。頌云。 > The Master said: Deshan usually struck like wind and rain. One day Yantou spread his sitting mat; Deshan flicked it down the steps with his staff. Yantou went down the steps, picked up the mat, and left. The next day he went up to attend on Deshan. Deshan said, 'Where did you learn this fakery?' Yantou said, 'I would never dare deceive myself.' Deshan said, 'Hereafter you will go defecate on this old monk's head!' When a father hears his son is capable, he regrets not laying down his life; only when one's insight surpasses the teacher's is one worthy of transmission. This question is called by all quarters 'the dynamic of straddling the threshold.' It might not have been that he actually straddled the threshold to ask at that time. Anciently, an outsider hid a live sparrow in his hand and asked the Bhagavān, 'Is the sparrow in my hand alive or dead?' The Bhagavān straddled the doorway with his foot and said, 'You tell me: do I wish to go out, or do I wish to enter?' Asking 'Ordinary or sage?' truly has this principle. Formerly, Puhua once pointed to the holy monk \[image\] and asked Linji, 'Tell me, is this ordinary or sage?' Linji immediately shouted. Puhua said, 'The bride of Heyang, the old woman's Chan of the wooden pagoda—Linji's little boy yet possesses a single eye!' Linji said, 'This old thief!' Puhua went out of the saṅgha hall, saying, 'Thief! Thief!' Shoushan said, 'Of these two thieves, there is one true thief. But tell me, which is the true thief?' On their behalf he said, 'Liu Penzi.' When Yantou asked, 'Ordinary or sage?' and Deshan immediately shouted, it was just like having conferred with Linji to verify each other. Yantou's bow was also the same as Linji's little boy possessing a single eye. Xuedou said: 'At that moment, just as he bowed, a blow split down his spine would not only have cut off Dongshan, but would also have held fast old Huo.' This again is of the same insight as Linji saying, 'This old thief.' When Dongshan heard it related, he said, 'Had it not been Master Huo, it would have been hard to take on.' Foguo added the comment: 'A bystander possesses eyes.' He also said, 'Knowing only the first, not knowing the second.' Wansong's view is not so. Foguo said that Dongshan, as a bystander, although possessing eyes, only saw the sharpness of the awl's point. Wansong says: Although Venerable Foguo had eyes, he did not see the squareness of the chisel head! Dongshan deliberately used 'taking on' to incriminate Yantou, wanting to bring to light that the original bow had both provisional and real. Sure enough, the fire reached Yantou's head, and in a flurry he brushed it off, saying: 'Old fellow Dongshan does not know good from bad! At that time, with one hand I raised up, and with one hand I pressed down.' Only then could they light the lamp and eat their meal; both houses are clearly distinct. Have you not seen that Venerable Yong of Baoning said in a verse: 'A hare runs across the level plain, unleash the gray falcon'—this verses the question straddling the doorway; 'With one pounce it pecks out both eyes'—this verses Deshan's shout and Yantou's bow; 'Stolen away by a poisonous hand, others buy it off'—this verses Dongshan fixing a sharp price; 'Yet the weight in pounds is not yet clear'—this is precisely what Wansong says. Do you wish to get the weight clear? In truth, Foguo and Wansong do not dispute who is higher or lower. Look further onto Tiantong's scale-pan. 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