萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 3.74

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師云。郢州興陽山清剖禪師。嗣大陽明安。凡一十五人。皆先下世。後因浮山圓鑒。得投子青和尚。陽乃十五之一。青公之兄也。這僧問處。如牢度差與舍利弗。創給孤獨園。時鬪勝。差現獰龍。欲傷弗。弗現妙翅鳥擭裂食之。龍亦鱗蟲之長。奈何妙翅唯龍為食。娑竭梵語此云海也。平原君。趙勝相趙惠文王及孝成王家起重樓。臨民家。民有躄者。美人笑之。躄者請美人之首。君諾而不行。賓客去半。君斬囚人代之。賓固不至。遂臬美人首。懸御樓前驗其真也。周歲賓集。此洞上家風不貴棒喝親行。要假傍來通信。這僧罪不重科。方能迴互。還知麼。蒲鞭示恥尤難犯。畫地為牢不忍欺。官法如爐心似鐵。天童從此費鉆鎚。頌云。

The Master said: Chan Master Qingpo of Mount Xingyang in Yingzhou succeeded Dayang Ming'an. There were fifteen people in all, every one of whom passed away prematurely; later, through Yuanjian of Fushan, Venerable Touzi Qing was obtained. Xingyang was one of the fifteen, and elder brother to Master Qing. The place of this monk's question is like Raudrākṣa and Śāriputra competing for victory when establishing Anāthapiṇḍada's park. Raudrākṣa manifested a ferocious dragon wishing to harm Śāriputra; Śāriputra manifested a garuda bird, tore it apart and ate it. A dragon is also the chief of scaled creatures; yet how can it help that the garuda feeds only on dragons? *Sāgara* is Sanskrit, here meaning 'ocean'. Lord Pingyuan, Zhao Sheng, ministered to King Huiwen and King Xiaocheng of Zhao; his house built a multistoried tower overlooking commoners' homes. Among the commoners was a cripple; a beauty [of Zhao Sheng's household] laughed at him. The cripple asked for the beauty's head; the Lord promised it but did not carry it out. Half the guests left. The Lord executed a prisoner instead of her; the guests still did not come. Thereupon he severed the beauty's head and hung it before the imperial tower to verify its genuineness. After a full year, the guests gathered. This style of the Dong school does not value personally delivering sticks and shouts; it requires relying on the side to convey the message. This monk's crime was not doubly charged, and only then could he dodge and weave. Do you know? A whip of rushes to show shame is all the harder to transgress; drawing a circle on the ground as a prison, one cannot bear to deceive it. Official law is like a furnace, the mind like iron; Tiantong from here on expends drill and hammer. The verse says: