萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 6.29

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師云。撫州疎山光仁禪師。參洞山問。未有之言。請師示誨。山曰。不諾。無人肯。疎云。還可切也無。山曰。闍梨即今還切得麼。疎云。切不得即無諱處。後在香嚴會下。僧問嚴。不慕諸聖。不重己靈時如何。嚴云。萬機休罷。千聖不携。疎在眾作嘔聲曰。是何言歟。嚴問。阿誰。眾曰。師叔。嚴曰。汝不諾山僧耶。疎出眾曰。是。嚴曰。汝莫道得麼。疎曰。道得。嚴曰。汝試道看。疎曰。若教某道。須還師資禮始得。嚴乃下座禮拜了。躡前語問之。疎曰。何不道。肯諾不得全。嚴曰。肯又肯箇甚麼。諾又諾於阿誰。疎曰。肯則肯他千聖。諾則諾于自己。嚴曰。饒爾恁麼。也須三十年倒屙。設住山無柴燒。住水無水喫。分明記取。後住疎山。果如嚴記。二十七年病愈。自曰香嚴記我三十年倒屙今欠三年。凡食後以手抉而吐之。以應嚴記。疎後問鏡清道怤禪師。肯諾不得全。汝作麼生會。怤曰。全歸肯諾。疎曰。不得全又作麼生。怤曰。箇中無肯路。疎曰。方愜病僧意。溈山懶安。禪門三懶之一也。亦曰長慶大安禪師。示眾云。有句無句。如藤倚樹。疎不遠四千里。賣布單去問。值溈泥壁次便問。有句無句如藤倚樹。豈不是和尚語。溈曰。是。疎曰。忽若樹倒藤枯時如何。溈放泥槃。大笑歸方丈。疎隨後曰。某四千里賣布單。特為此來。和尚何得相弄。溈喚侍者。討錢還伊布單令去。因囑向後有獨眼龍。為汝點破去在。後果遇明昭點破。疎山四千里賣布單。特為此話。今時傍家行脚者。亦可本分事上留心。但隨方建立遞相讚揚。不可如疎山向眾中作嘔聲。不道伊別無長處。破羯磨。破轉法輪。破和合僧。必招現報。香嚴受記。疏山抉吐應記。皆作後人榜樣。疏山亦不可測地位中人也。疏尋常接機。手握木蛇。僧問手中是甚麼物。疏提起蛇曰。曹家女。雪峯入山。採得一枝木。其形似蛇。背上題曰。本自天然不假雕琢。寄與溈山大安。溈曰。本色住山人。且無刀斧痕。疎山既因此話。見溈山。亦用木蛇。或親傳。或倣像。不可知也。明昭又問疎。虎生七子。阿那箇無尾。疏曰。第七箇無尾。雲門韶國師。皆參疎山。矮師叔名遂冠古今。天童只將溈山笑處。疎山覰破。明昭舉處。徑直頌出。頌云。

The Master said: Chan Master Guangren of Shushan in Fuzhou visited Dongshan and asked, 'Regarding words that have never yet existed, I invite the master to instruct me.' Dongshan said, 'Without consent, no one approves.' Shushan said, 'Can it still be cut off or not?' Dongshan said, 'Ācārya, right now can you still cut it off?' Shushan said, 'If it cannot be cut off, then there is nowhere to conceal it.' Later, when he was in Xiangyan's assembly, a monk asked Xiangyan, 'How is it when one does not admire the various sages, and does not hold one's own spirit in esteem?' Xiangyan said, 'Ten thousand mechanisms cease; a thousand sages do not accompany.' Shushan made a retching sound in the assembly and said, 'What kind of talk is this!' Xiangyan asked, 'Who is it?' The assembly said, 'The junior uncle.' Xiangyan said, 'Do you not consent to this mountain monk?' Shushan came out from the assembly and said, 'That is so.' Xiangyan said, 'Can you speak of it?' Shushan said, 'I can.' Xiangyan said, 'Try and speak.' Shushan said, 'If you have me speak, you must first render the etiquette of master and disciple.' Xiangyan then stepped down from his seat, prostrated, and repeating the earlier words, questioned him. Shushan said, 'Why did you not say: Consent and approval cannot be complete?' Xiangyan said, 'Consent, and consent to what? Approve, and approve of whom?' Shushan said, 'As for consenting, it is consenting to those thousand sages; as for approving, it is approving of oneself.' Xiangyan said, 'Even if you are like this, you will still have to suffer diarrhea for thirty years! If you stay on a mountain, there will be no firewood to burn; if you dwell by water, there will be no water to drink. Remember this clearly!' Later, when he resided at Shushan, it turned out just as Xiangyan had predicted. After twenty-seven years, his illness was cured, and he said to himself: 'Xiangyan predicted thirty years of diarrhea for me, and now three years are still lacking.' Whenever he finished eating, he would gouge his throat with his fingers to vomit, in order to fulfill Xiangyan's prediction. Shushan later asked Chan Master Daofu of Jingqing, ''Consent and approval cannot be complete'—how do you understand this?' Jingqing said, 'Completely returned to consent and approval.' Shushan said, 'What about when it cannot be complete?' Jingqing said, 'In that realm, there is no road of consent.' Shushan said, 'Only now does this accord with this sick monk's intention.' Guishan Lan'an was one of the Three Lazy Ones of the Chan school, also called Chan Master Da'an of Changqing. He instructed the assembly, saying: 'Phrases of existence and phrases of nonexistence are like wisteria leaning on a tree.' Shushan did not consider four thousand leagues too far, selling his cloth quilt to go and question him. Finding Guishan plastering a wall, he immediately asked, ''Phrases of existence and phrases of nonexistence are like wisteria leaning on a tree'—are these not the Venerable's words?' Guishan said, 'Yes.' Shushan said, 'What happens if suddenly the tree falls and the wisteria withers?' Guishan set down his plastering tray, laughed loudly, and returned to the abbot's quarters. Shushan followed behind him and said, 'I sold my cloth quilt and traveled four thousand leagues especially for this; how can the Venerable make fun of me?' Guishan called to the attendant to fetch money to repay him for the cloth quilt and send him away. He then instructed him: 'Hereafter, there will be a one-eyed dragon who will point it out and break it through for you.' Later, he was indeed enlightened by Mingzhao. Shushan sold his cloth quilt and traveled four thousand leagues especially for this topic. Nowadays, those who travel about visiting teachers should also keep their attention on the fundamental affair: simply establishing according to circumstances and mutually praising one another, one must not make retching sounds in the assembly like Shushan. This is not to say he had no other strengths, but destroying the karmavācanā, destroying the turning of the wheel of Dharma, and destroying the concordant saṅgha will surely bring retribution in this very life. Xiangyan's prediction and Shushan's gouging and vomiting to fulfill the prediction both serve as examples for later generations. Shushan was also a person in an unfathomable state! In customarily receiving students, Shushan held a wooden snake in his hand. A monk asked what object was in his hand, and Shushan held up the snake and said, 'The daughter of the Cao family.' Xuefeng had gone into the mountains, found a piece of wood shaped like a snake, and inscribed on its back: 'Naturally innate from the beginning, not requiring carving or chiseling,' and sent it to Guishan Da'an. Guishan said, 'A true dweller of the mountain, without any trace of knife or axe.' Since Shushan had met Guishan on account of this case, he also used a wooden snake; whether it was directly transmitted or an imitation cannot be known. Mingzhao also asked Shushan, 'A tigress gives birth to seven cubs—which one has no tail?' Shushan said, 'The seventh one has no tail.' Yunmen and State Preceptor Shao both studied under Shushan; the fame of the Short Junior Uncle thus surpassed past and present. Tiantong took merely Guishan's laughter, Shushan's seeing through it, and Mingzhao's bringing it up, and directly set it forth in verse. The verse says: