[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) › 4.73 # 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.73 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.73 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.73) 師云。汝州寶應省念禪師。蔡州人姓狄氏。參風穴。穴示眾云。昔日世尊以青蓮花目。顧視迦葉。正當恁麼時。且道。說箇甚麼。首山便下去。侍者入室請益曰。念法華為甚麼。不祗對和尚。穴云。念法華會也。次日山與真園頭（汝州廣慧真也）同上立侍次。穴云。作麼生是世尊不說說。真曰。鵓鳩樹頭鳴。意在麻畬裏。穴云。爾作許多癡福作甚麼。何不體究言句。仍問山。爾作麼生。山云。動容揚古路。不墮悄然機。穴語真曰。爾何不看念法華下語。山後出世。上堂云。要得親切莫將問來。問在答處。答在問處。若將問來。老僧在汝脚底。汝若擬議則沒交涉。一日拈竹篦云。汝若喚作竹篦即觸。不喚作竹篦即背。汝諸人且喚作甚麼。葉縣省和尚掣得折作兩截。拋向階下却云。是甚麼。山云。瞎縣便禮拜。諸方喚作背觸關。俗諺有云。顛倒顛。新婦騎驢阿家牽。佛國頌云。首山有語。古今傳。此語休云。返倒顛。新婦醉騎驢子去。時人笑殺阿家牽。不似天童頌得可喜。頌云。 > The Master said: Chan Master Shengnian of Baoying in Ruzhou was a native of Caizhou surnamed Di. He studied under Fengxue. Fengxue instructed the assembly, saying: 'In the past, the Bhagavān looked at Kāśyapa with his blue-lotus eyes. Right at such a time, tell me, what did he say?' Shoushan immediately went down. The attendant entered the master's room to ask for instruction, saying, 'Why did Nian Fahua not answer the Venerable?' Fengxue said, 'Nian Fahua understands.' The next day, Shan and Head Gardener Zhen (Zhen of Guanghui in Ruzhou) went up together to stand in attendance. Fengxue said, 'What is the Bhagavān's speaking without speaking?' Zhen said, 'The turtle-dove calls from the treetop; its mind is in the hemp field.' Fengxue said, 'Why do you make so much foolish merit? Why not investigate the words and phrases?' He then asked Shan, 'What about you?' Shan said, 'Moving with deportment, one displays the ancient path, not falling into the working of silence.' Fengxue said to Zhen, 'Why don't you look at the words uttered by Nian Fahua?' Later, when Shan came into the world \[as an abbot\], he took the high seat and said, 'If you want intimacy, do not bring questions. The question is in the place of the answer; the answer is in the place of the question. If you bring a question, this old monk is under your feet. If you deliberate, there is no connection.' One day he held up a bamboo stick and said, 'If you call it a bamboo stick, you clash; if you do not call it a bamboo stick, you turn your back. What, all of you, do you call it?' Master Sheng of Yexian snatched it, snapped it into two pieces, threw them down the steps, and said, 'What is it?' Shan said, 'Blind one!' Xian then bowed. The various quarters call this the 'barrier of clashing and turning one's back.' A common proverb says: 'Topsy-turvy upside-down: the bride rides the donkey, the mother-in-law leads it.' Foguo's verse says: 'Shoushan has words transmitted through past and present; / Of these words, do not say they are topsy-turvy upside-down. / The bride drunkenly goes off riding the donkey; / People of the time laugh themselves to death at the mother-in-law leading it.' It is not delightful like Tiantong's verse. The verse says: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.72) - [Next: 4.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.74) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004~en-mt.4.73) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.73) · Pramāṇa