佛祖歷代通載 16.44

16.44

(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.