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破竈墮　破竈墮禪師。不稱名氏。得法於慧安國師。隱居嵩嶽。山塢有廟。靈甚。殿中唯安一竈。遠近祭祀不輟。師一日引侍僧入廟。以杖敲竈三下曰。咄此竈只是泥瓦合成。聖從何來。靈從何起。恁麼烹宰物命。又打三下。竈乃傾墮。須臾一人青衣峨冠設拜師前。師曰。是甚麼人。曰我本此廟竈神。久受業報。今日蒙師說無生法。得脫此處。生在天中。特來致謝。師曰。是汝本有之性非吾彊言。神再拜而沒。由是時人呼師曰破竈墮和尚（傳燈錄）。

Stove-Toppler. Chan Master Pozaoduo ('Stove-Toppler') did not state his surname or given name. He attained the Dharma under National Preceptor Hui'an and lived in seclusion on Mount Song. In a mountain ravine there was a shrine that was exceedingly numinous. In the hall was placed only a single cooking stove; sacrifices from far and near never ceased. One day, the master led an attendant monk into the shrine, struck the stove three times with his staff, and said: 'Bah! This stove is merely assembled from mud and tiles. Whence comes the holiness? Wherefore arises the numinous power? Why slaughter living creatures like this?' He struck it three more times, and the stove then collapsed and fell down. In a moment, a person wearing green robes and a tall hat bowed before the master. The master said, 'What kind of person are you?' He said, 'I was originally the stove god of this shrine, and for a long time I suffered karmic retribution. Today, receiving the master's preaching of the Dharma of non-arising, I was able to escape from this place and be born in the heavens. I have come especially to express my gratitude.' The master said, 'It is your own inherent nature; it was not my forced words.' The god bowed again and vanished. Because of this, the people of the time called the master 'the Stove-Toppler Monk' (Transmission of the Lamp).