萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.61

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師云。舒州投子山大同禪師。初謁翠微無學禪師。適遇堂上經行次。而便前進接禮問。西來密意師。如何示人。微駐步顧視之。子曰。乞師指示。微曰。更要第二杓惡水那。子忽省契。拜謝而退。微曰。子無墮却。子曰。時至根苗自生。他日偶問。如何是佛理。微曰。佛則不理。子曰。莫落空否。微曰。真空不空。因示讖頌曰。佛理何曾理。真空又不空。大同居寂住。敷演我師宗。子還本鄉桐城投子山。趙州始於桐城相見。州曰。莫是投子庵主麼。子曰。茶監錢施我一文。州先上山。子携油瓶後至。州曰。久響投子。到來只見賣油翁。子曰。爾只見賣油翁。且不識投子。州曰。如何是投子。子提起油瓶曰。油油。子置茶筵相待。自過胡餅。與趙州。州不管。子令侍者過胡餅。州禮侍者三拜。且道。他意如何。蘇州永光真禪師。上堂云。言鋒若差。鄉關萬里。直須懸崖撒手自肯承當。絕後再甦。欺君不得。趙州將此意問。若非投子。卒難搆副。是他便道。不許夜行投明須到。此與尋常不脫皮。要白柳棒底。言意似同。就理正與趙州問頭相應。州云。我早侯白。伊更侯黑。子由是道聲集眾。奏請應讖。名寂住院。白雲端頌。死去活來牙尚露。投明須到已先行。誰家別館池溏裏。一對鴛鴦畫不成。試看天童一筆丹青。頌云。

The Master said: Chan Master Datong of Mount Touzi in Shuzhou first called upon Chan Master Wuxue of Cuiwei. Just then Cuiwei was doing walking meditation in the hall. Datong stepped forward, bowed, and asked: 'How do you, Master, show people the secret intention of the coming from the West?' Cuiwei halted his steps and glanced at him. Touzi said, 'I beg the master's instruction.' Cuiwei said, 'Do you want another ladle of foul water?' Touzi was suddenly awakened and in accord; he bowed in gratitude and withdrew. Cuiwei said, 'Do not fall away from it.' Touzi said, 'When the time comes, the sprouts will grow of themselves.' Another day he happened to ask, 'What is the principle of Buddha?' Cuiwei said, 'Buddha has no principle.' Touzi said, 'Could it fall into emptiness?' Cuiwei said, 'True emptiness is not empty.' He then showed him a verse of prophecy: 'How has the principle of Buddha ever been a principle? / True emptiness is again not empty. / Datong shall abide in the Hermitage of Solitary Abode / And expound my master's lineage.' Touzi returned to Mount Touzi in his native Tongcheng. Zhaozhou first met him in Tongcheng. Zhaozhou said, 'Could you be the Master of Touzi Hermitage?' Touzi said, 'Alms-give me a copper for tea and salt.' Zhaozhou went up the mountain first; Touzi followed later carrying an oil bottle. Zhaozhou said, 'I have long heard of Touzi, but arriving here, I see only an oil-selling old man.' Touzi said, 'You see only an oil-selling old man, yet do not recognize Touzi.' Zhaozhou said, 'What is Touzi?' Touzi raised the oil bottle and said, 'Oil! Oil!' Touzi prepared a tea feast to receive him, and passed a sesame flatbread to Zhaozhou himself. Zhaozhou paid no attention. Touzi ordered an attendant to pass the sesame flatbread; Zhaozhou bowed three times to the attendant. Tell me: what was his intention? Chan Master Zhen of Yongguang in Suzhou ascended the hall and said: 'If the sharp point of your words errs, home and country are ten thousand miles away. You must let go your hands from the hanging cliff and personally take charge; reviving after utter extinction, no one can deceive you.' Zhaozhou asked with this intent. If not for Touzi, it would have been difficult to match him so swiftly. Touzi just said, 'Walking by night is not permitted; one must arrive at dawn.' While these words seem similar to the ordinary 'not stripping the skin, wanting a white willow staff', in terms of principle they precisely correspond to Zhaozhou's opening question. Zhaozhou said, 'I was waiting for white; he was waiting for black.' Because of this, Touzi's reputation for the Way gathered the multitude. A petition was submitted in accord with the prophecy, and the monastery was named Solitary Abode. Baiyun Duan's verse says: 'Dying and coming back to life, his teeth are still exposed; / Having to arrive at dawn, he has already walked ahead. / In the pond of whose villa / Can a pair of mandarin ducks not be painted?' Try to look at Tiantong's single brush of painting. The verse says: