佛祖歷代通載 16.44

16.44

（廿五）　湖南觀察使裴休。躬謁華林善覺禪師。休問。師還有侍者否。覺云。有一兩箇。休云。在什麼處。覺乃喚大空小空。時二虎自庵後而出。休覩之大驚。覺語虎曰。且去有客在。二虎哮吼而去。休問。師作何行業感得如斯。覺良久云。會麼。休云。不會。覺云。山僧常念觀音。休歎異而去。覺隱居常持錫夜出林麓間。七步一振錫一稱觀音名號。嘗有僧來參。方展坐具。覺曰。且緩緩。僧曰。和尚見箇什麼。覺云。可惜許磕破鐘樓。其僧有省。

(25) Pei Xiu, Surveillance Commissioner of Hunan, personally visited Chan Master Shanjue of Hualin. Xiu asked, "Does the Master have any attendants?" Jue said, "I have one or two." Xiu said, "Where are they?" Jue then called out, "Great Emptiness, Little Emptiness!" At that moment, two tigers came out from behind the hermitage. Seeing them, Xiu was greatly terrified. Jue said to the tigers, "Go away for now; there is a guest here." The two tigers roared and departed. Xiu asked, "What practice and conduct does the Master perform to evoke such a response?" Jue was silent for a good while, then said, "Do you understand?" Xiu said, "I do not understand." Jue said, "This mountain monk constantly recites Avalokiteśvara." Admiring this marvel, Xiu departed. In his solitary retreat, Jue regularly held his staff and went out into the forest foothills at night; every seven paces he shook his staff once and recited the name of Avalokiteśvara once. Once, a monk came to visit. Just as he was spreading his sitting mat, Jue said, "Take it slowly!" The monk said, "What does the Venerable Monk see?" Jue said, "What a pity, bumping into and breaking the bell tower!" The monk had an awakening.