[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) › 5.93 # 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 5.93 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 5.93 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.5.93) 師云。玄沙問昨日喧鬧。如莊子大宗師篇云。夫藏舟於壑。藏山於澤。謂之固矣。然夜半有力者負之而趨。昧者不知也。藏小大有宜。猶有所遯。若夫藏天下于天下。而不得所遯。是恒物之大情也。天童以玄沙昨日今日置問。藏舟密負以驗小塘。却來澄源湛水裏尚棹孤舟。此玄中銘恐滯死水。玄沙句中眼活。要人識動靜根源。臥龍球和尚曰。欲得省要却是山河大地。與汝發明。其事既常。亦能究竟。若從文殊門入者。一切有為土木瓦石助汝發機。若從觀音門入者。一切音響。蝦䗫蚯蚓助汝發機。若從普賢門入者。不動步而到。我以此三門。方便示汝。如將一隻折筋攪大海水。令彼魚龍知水為命。若常知動靜語默來去根源。早不空過。此頌玄沙為人處。若是作家。函蓋箭鋒。探竿影草。把定放行。看取提袈裟與沒交涉。看是何道理。史記龜策。傳太史公曰。余至江南。觀其行事。云龜千歲乃遊蓮葉之上。此沒交涉。潛縮也不妨游戲。游戲也不妨潛縮。今畫魚藻圖。藻水草也。隨波搖漾自成文章。又藻水草有文者也。見論語。山節藻梲。要識二老麼。有意氣時添意氣。不風流處也風流。 > The Master said: Xuansha asked about yesterday's clamour, like the "Great and Venerable Teacher" chapter of \*Zhuangzi\*: "Now, hiding a boat in a ravine or hiding a mountain in a marsh may be called secure. Yet at midnight a strong man shoulders it and runs away, while the ignorant do not know. Hiding small in large is appropriate, yet there is still somewhere it slips away. But if you hide the world in the world so that there is nowhere it can slip away, this is the great reality of constant things." Tiantong takes Xuansha's questioning about yesterday and today as hiding the boat and secretly carrying it away to test Xiaotang; yet coming to the clear source and deep water, he still rows a lone boat. This is like the \*Inscription on the Mysterious Center\* fearing getting stuck in dead water; Xuansha's phrase had a living eye, wishing people to recognise the source of movement and stillness. Venerable Wolong Qiu said: "If you want to attain the essential shortcut, it is rather the mountains, rivers, and the great earth that bring you enlightenment. That affair is both constant and capable of ultimate reality. If one enters through the gate of Mañjuśrī, all conditioned things—earth, wood, tiles, and stones—help you trigger the dynamic. If one enters through the gate of Guanyin, all sounds—toads and earthworms—help you trigger the dynamic. If one enters through the gate of Samantabhadra, one arrives without moving a step. I use these three gates to show you by expedient means, like taking a single snapped chopstick to stir the great ocean water, causing those fish and dragons to know water as life. If you constantly know the source of movement, stillness, speech, silence, coming, and going, you have not spent your time in vain already." This praises Xuansha's way of helping people. If one is an adept—matching box and lid, arrow points meeting, the sounding pole, shadowing grass, holding fast and letting go—look at lifting the kāṣāya and "no relation"; see what principle this is. The \*Records of the Grand Historian\* on "Tortoise Divination" says: The Grand Historian says, "When I reached Jiangnan, I observed their affairs; it is said that after a thousand years, a tortoise swims on lotus leaves." This is "no relation." Submerged and withdrawn does not hinder playing and sporting; playing and sporting does not hinder submerged and withdrawn. Nowadays people paint pictures of fish and waterweeds; waterweeds are aquatic grasses, undulating with the waves and forming patterns of themselves. Furthermore, \*zao\* are patterned waterweeds, seen in the \*Analects\*: "mountain-shaped brackets and weed-patterned kingposts." Do you want to recognise the two old men? "When there is spirit, add spirit; / Where there is no refinement, there is also refinement." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.5.92) - [Next: 5.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.5.94) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004~en-mt.5.93) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.5.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2004.5.93) · Pramāṇa