萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 3.19

3.19

師云。祖燈諸錄皆云。夾山未見舡子時。已出世。住潤州京口竹林。而不著嗣法師名。獨佛果擊節云。傳明初嗣石樓。即汾州石樓也。傳明即夾山諡號。澧州洛浦山元安禪師。久參臨濟。為侍者。濟甞曰。臨濟門下一隻箭。誰敢當鋒。一日辭濟。濟問。何往。曰南方去。濟拄杖一劃云。過得這箇便去。浦乃喝。濟便打。浦作禮而去。游歷罷至夾山頂上。卓庵經一年。夾山知遣侍僧。馳書到。浦接得便坐却。再展手索。僧無語。浦便打云。歸去舉似和尚。僧迴舉之。山云。這僧看書三日內必來。不看書不可救也。浦三日後來。不禮拜當面而立。山云。鷄棲鳳巢。非其同類出去。各負撥草瞻風眼。浦見夾山遣遣却是留。既來豈可空迴。又見門庭峻硬各不相下。便軟計就他道。自遠趨風乞師一接。山別有一副鑪韛。道。目前無闍梨。此間無老僧。山知久參必行臨濟正令。然後別用超宗越格鉆鎚。浦果然便喝。爾且道。只這箇更別有。山云。住住且莫草草怱怱。未要著忙。雲月是同。溪山各異。一般麵草由人做造。截斷天下人舌頭。即不無。只有千尺寒松。爭教無舌人解語。更須要抽條石笋。山曾有語。論門庭施設入理深談。浦門庭施設也。山入理深談也。浦貪觀白浪失却手橈。卒搆不上。山也好。却將臨濟正令。為他生澁鑰匙投舊鎖。浦家常釅醋曾喫知酸。於是伏膺。興化云。但知成佛愁甚麼眾生。萬松道。爭奈獨樹不成林。雪竇云。這僧可悲可痛。鈍滯他臨濟。萬松道。養子不及父。家門一世衰。他既雲月是同。我亦溪山各異。萬松道。南山秋色氣勢相高。說甚無舌人不解語。萬松道。猶是通事舍人。坐具劈口摵。萬松道。被他接住爛毆一頓。又作麼生。夾山是箇知方漢。必然明窓下安排。萬松道。不如還他本分草料。五祖戒云。更說道理。看便出去。萬松道。蛇蝎性靈生便毒。大陽延云。也要和尚證明。萬松道。芝蘭氣味老終香。師復云。藥山一宗實難紹舉。雲巖掃地塵埃亘天。洛浦伏膺。稱冤不已。好在無舌解語。無手行拳。直饒棒喝交馳。只得傍提一半。扶持此道。分付天童。頌云。

The Master said: The *Transmission of the Lamp* and other records all say that before Jiashan met Chuanzi, he had already appeared in the world and resided at Zhulin in Jingkou, Runzhou, yet did not record the name of the master who transmitted the Dharma to him. Only Foguo clapped his hands and said: 'Chuanming initially succeeded Shilou'—that is, Shilou of Fenzhou. Chuanming is Jiashan's posthumous title. Chan Master Yuan'an of Mount Luopu in Lizhou had studied under Linji for a long time as an attendant. Linji once said: 'An arrow under Linji's gate—who dares meet its point?' One day he took leave of Linji. Linji asked: 'Where are you going?' He said: 'South.' Linji drew a line with his staff and said: 'If you can cross this, then go.' Luopu then shouted; Linji struck him. Luopu bowed and left. After traveling, he reached the summit of Jiashan and set up a hut, where a year passed. Jiashan learned of it and dispatched an attendant monk to rush a letter to him. Luopu took it and sat on it, then stretched out his hand again to ask for it. The monk had no words; Luopu then struck him, saying: 'Go back and present this to the Venerable.' The monk returned and presented it. Jiashan said: 'If this monk reads the letter, he will certainly come within three days; if he does not read the letter, he cannot be saved.' Three days later, Luopu came; without bowing, he stood face to face with him. Jiashan said: 'A chicken roosts in a phoenix's nest—you are not of the same kind; get out!' Each had the eye to part the grass and watch the wind. Luopu saw that Jiashan's driving him away was in fact keeping him; having arrived, how could he return empty-handed? Seeing also that the methods of the house were high and hard, with neither yielding to the other, he used a soft tactic to adapt to him, saying: 'Having hastened here from afar drawn by your renown, I beg the master to receive me.' Jiashan had another furnace and bellows, saying: 'Before my eyes there is no ācārya; here there is no old monk.' Jiashan knew that having studied for a long time, he would certainly carry out Linji's direct order, and therefore he separately used tongs and hammer that transcend the lineage and surpass the standard. Luopu indeed then shouted. You tell me: is it just this, or is there something else? Jiashan said: 'Stop, stop! Do not be so hasty and careless. There is no need to be flurried. The clouds and moon are the same; streams and mountains are distinct. The same dough and grass depend on how people make them. Cutting off the tongues of everyone under heaven is not without merit—there are only thousand-foot cold pines; how can you make a tongueless person speak?—one must still sprout shoots from bamboo.' Jiashan once had a saying: 'In terms of setting up the house style, it enters deep talk of principle.' Luopu was setting up the house style; Jiashan was the deep talk of principle. Luopu, greedy to gaze at the white waves, lost his oar and suddenly could not keep up. Jiashan was also skillful, taking Linji's direct order and putting an unpolished key into an old lock for him. Luopu was used to drinking the strong home vinegar and knew its sourness; thus he submitted in his heart. Xinghua said: 'Just understand becoming a buddha; why worry about sentient beings?' Wansong says: How can a single tree make a forest? Xuedou said: 'This monk is pitiable and lamentable; he retarded that Linji.' Wansong says: When the raised son does not equal the father, the house declines for a generation. 'Since he says the clouds and moon are the same, I also say the streams and mountains are distinct.' Wansong says: The autumn colors of the southern mountains compete in majestic vigor. 'What is the talk of a tongueless person being unable to speak?' Wansong says: Still an interpreter-official. 'He should have struck him right in the mouth with his sitting cloth.' Wansong says: If he had grabbed it and beaten him to a pulp, what then? 'Jiashan is a man who knows directions; he will certainly arrange things beneath the bright window.' Wansong says: It is better to return his fundamental fodder to him. Wuzu Jie said: 'If he speaks of principles again, watch him leave immediately.' Wansong says: The nature of snakes and scorpions is venomous by birth. Dayang Yan said: 'It also requires the Venerable's verification.' Wansong says: The scent of orchids remains fragrant into old age. The Master also said: The lineage of Yaoshan is truly difficult to carry on and raise up. When Yunyan swept the ground, the dust filled the sky. Luopu submitted in his heart, crying of injustice without end. Fortunately, the tongueless understands speech, and the handless delivers punches. Even though staff and shout fly back and forth, they can only raise half on the side. Supporting this Way, it is entrusted to Tiantong. The verse says: