[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) › 4.7 # 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.7 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 4.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.7) 師云。李翱問鵞湖。大悲用千手眼作麼。湖云。今上用公作麼。昔有無目山人。貨卜。雨過泥。途著鮮白鞋入市。人問。山人失明。如何泥不污鞋。山人舉拄杖云。拄杖頭上有眼。以山人為證。夜間摸枕子。手上有眼。喫飯時舌上有眼。聽語識人耳中有眼。蘇子瞻與聾人說話。寫字而已。復笑云。我與彼皆異人也。我以手為口。彼以眼為耳。佛說六根互用。信乎不疑。無盡居士潞州紫巖大悲殿記。舉大悲經楞嚴經。最為詳細。甞見一說。大悲昔為妙善公主。乃天人為宣律師說。然三十二應。百億化身。亦隨見不同。各據其說也。天覺曰。千手者示引迷接物之多也。千眼者示放光照暗之廣也。苟無眾生無塵勞。則一指不存。而況千萬臂乎。一瞬不具。而況千萬目乎。遍身通身。何必不必。似有淺深。實無損益。雲居示眾曰。老僧二十年前住三峯庵時。興化來曰。權借一問以為影草時如何。老僧當時機思遲鈍道不得。為伊致得箇問頭。奇特不敢辜他。當時伊曰。想庵主答這話不得。不如禮拜了退。而今思量當時不消道箇何必。萬松道。若教容易得。後有化主到興化處。化問。山中和尚住三峯庵時。老僧曾問伊話祇對不得。而今道得也未。化主舉前話了。化曰。雲居二十年只道得箇何必。興化即不然。爭如道箇不必。萬松道。鬪兔角之短長。三聖云。雲居二十年道得。猶較他興化半月程。萬松道。競空花之濃淡。僧問覺範。如諸老宿所示有同異否。範云。佛令訥鈍比丘誦苕菷。一日大悟得大辯才。於此當見先德為物之心。天童分上又作麼生。頌云。 > The Master said: Li Ao asked Ehu, 'What does Great Compassion use a thousand hands and eyes for?' Ehu said, 'What does the present Emperor use you for, sir?' In the past, there was a blind hermit who sold fortunes. After rain, when the road was muddy, he put on fresh white shoes and entered the marketplace. People asked, 'Hermit, you have lost your sight; how is it that the mud does not soil your shoes?' The hermit raised his staff and said, 'There is an eye on the head of my staff.' Taking the hermit as verification: reaching for a pillow in the night, there is an eye on the hand; when eating, there is an eye on the tongue; when listening to words to recognize a person, there is an eye in the ear. Su Zizhan spoke with a deaf person only by writing characters. He laughed again and said, 'He and I are both extraordinary people: I use my hand as a mouth, and he uses his eyes as ears.' The Buddha taught the mutual functioning of the six sense faculties; truly there is no doubt of it! Layman Wujin's record of the Great Compassion Hall at Ziyan in Luzhou cites the Great Compassion Sūtra and the Śūraṅgama-sūtra most exhaustively. I have once seen an account that Great Compassion was formerly Princess Miaoshan, which was related by a deva to Vinaya Master Xuan. Yet the thirty-two responses and hundred billion transformation bodies also vary according to different perspectives, each relying on its own account. Tianjue said: 'The thousand hands show the multitude of guiding the deluded and receiving beings; the thousand eyes show the vastness of emitting light to illuminate darkness. If there were no sentient beings and no defiling toils, then not even a single finger would remain, let alone ten million arms? Not even a single wink would be complete, let alone ten million eyes? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.6) - [Next: 4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.8) - [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.4.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.4.7) · Pramāṇa