佛祖歷代通載 15.29

15.29

（二十一）　主歸宗智常禪師。目有重瞳。遂用藥手按摩。久而目眥俱赤。世號拭眼歸宗。江州刺史李渤問曰。教中謂須彌納芥子。渤則不疑。芥子納須彌。莫是妄談否。師云。人傳史君讀萬卷書。是否。渤曰然。師曰。摩頂至踵如椰子大。萬卷書向什麼處著。渤俛首而已。又問。一大藏教明得什麼邊事。師舉拳示之云。會麼。渤云。不會。師云。這箇措大拳頭也不識。渤云。請師指示。師曰。會則途中受用。不會則世諦流布。師甞示眾曰。從上古德不是無知解。他高尚之士不同常流。今時不能自成自立空度時光。諸子莫錯用心。無人替汝。亦無汝用心處。莫就他覓。從前只是依他作解。發言皆滯。光不透脫。只為目前有物。僧問。如何是玄旨。師云。無人能解。僧云。向者如何。師云。有向即乖。僧云。豈無方便令學人得入。師云。觀音妙智力能救世間苦。僧云。如何是觀音妙智力。師敲頂蓋三下云。還聞麼。僧云聞。師云。我何不聞。僧無語。即以棒趂下。復一日上堂云。吾今欲說禪。諸子總近前。大眾近前。師云。汝聽觀音行善應諸方所。僧云。如何是觀音行。師乃彈指云。諸人還聞否。僧云聞。師云。一隊漢向這裏覓箇什麼。以棒趂下。大笑歸方丈。師沒。有賢者贊其像曰。知見一何高。拭眼避天位。回觀洗耳人。千古未為愧。

(21) Chan Master Guizong Zhichang, abbot [of Guizong Monastery], had double pupils in his eyes. He therefore rubbed them with medicated hands; over a long time, the corners of his eyes both became red. People of the era called him "Eye-rubbing Guizong." Li Bo, Prefect of Jiangzhou, asked him, "The teaching says that Mount Sumeru contains a mustard seed—about this, Bo has no doubt. But that a mustard seed contains Mount Sumeru—is this not false talk?" The master said, "People say you have read ten thousand volumes of books, Lord Prefect. Is this so?" Bo said, "It is." The master said, "From the crown of your head to your heels, you are only the size of a coconut. Where do you put those ten thousand volumes of books?" Bo merely lowered his head. He also asked, "What facet of things does the entire Great Canon of teachings clarify?" The master held up his fist to show him, saying, "Do you understand?" Bo said, "I do not." The master said, "This pedantic scholar does not even recognize a fist!" Bo said, "I ask the master to give instruction." The master said, "If you understand it, you will enjoy its use on the way; if you do not understand it, it is just circulated as conventional truth." The master once instructed the assembly, saying, "The ancient worthies of the past were not without intellectual understanding; those noble persons were unlike the ordinary sort. People nowadays cannot establish themselves independently and pass their time in vain. Worthy friends, do not use your minds wrongly! No one can take your place, nor is there any place for you to apply your mind. Do not seek it from others! Hitherto you have merely relied on others to form interpretations, so whenever you speak you become stuck, and your illumination does not break through—only because there are things before your eyes." A monk asked, "What is the profound meaning?" The master said, "No one can understand it." The monk said, "What about one who turns toward it?" The master said, "To have a direction is to go astray." The monk said, "Is there not some expedient means to enable a student to gain entry?" The master said, "The wondrous power of Avalokiteśvara's wisdom can save the world from suffering." The monk said, "What is the wondrous power of Avalokiteśvara's wisdom?" The master struck the monk's crown three times and said, "Do you hear?" The monk said, "I hear." The master said, "Why do I not hear it?" The monk had nothing to say. Thereupon [the master] drove him away with a staff. On another day he ascended the hall and said, "Today I wish to speak of Chan. You all come closer!" The great assembly came closer. The master said, "'Listen to the conduct of Avalokiteśvara, skillfully responding to all quarters.'" A monk said, "What is the conduct of Avalokiteśvara?" The master then snapped his fingers and said, "Do you all hear it?" The monk said, "I hear it." The master said, "What are you bunch of fellows seeking here?" He drove them away with a staff, laughed loudly, and returned to the abbot's quarters. After the master passed away, a worthy person praised his portrait, saying: 'How lofty his insight was! / Rubbing his eyes, he averted an imperial throne. / Looking back at the man who washed his ears, / Through a thousand ages he feels no shame.'