景德傳燈錄 10.46

10.46

衢州子湖巖利蹤禪師澶州人也。姓周氏。幽州開元寺出家依年受具。後入南泉之室。乃抵于衢州之馬蹄山結茅宴居。唐開成二年邑人翁遷貴。施山下子湖創院。咸通二年勅賜額曰安國禪院。一日上堂示眾曰。子湖有一隻狗。上取人頭。中取人心。下取人足。擬議即喪身失命。僧問。如何是子湖一隻狗。師曰。嘷嘷。臨濟下二僧到參方揭簾。師曰。看狗。二僧迴顧。師歸方丈。師與勝光和尚鋤園。師驀按鑊迴視勝光云。事即不無擬心即差。光乃禮拜擬問。師與一蹋便歸院。有一尼到參。師曰。汝莫是劉鐵磨否。尼曰。不敢。師曰。左轉右轉。尼云。和尚莫顛倒。師便打。師中夜於僧堂前叫有賊。眾皆驚走。師到僧堂後架把住一僧叫云。維那捉得也捉得也。僧曰。不是某甲。師曰。是即是只是汝不肯承當。師有偈。示眾曰。

Chan Master Lizong of Zihu Cliff in Quzhou was a man of Zhanzhou whose secular surname was Zhou. He went forth at Kaiyuan Temple in Youzhou and received full ordination in accordance with the prescribed age. Later he entered the room of Nanquan, and then reached Mount Mati in Quzhou, where he thatched a hut and lived in quiet contemplation. In the second year of the Kaicheng era of the Tang, a townsman named Weng Qiangui donated land at the foot of the mountain at Zihu to establish a cloister. In the second year of the Xiantong era, an imperial decree bestowed the name Anguo Chan Cloister.
One day he ascended the hall and instructed the assembly, saying: “Zihu has a dog: up above it takes people’s heads, in the middle it takes people’s hearts, down below it takes people’s feet. If you deliberate, you lose your body and forfeit your life!”
A monk asked: “What is Zihu’s dog?”
The master said: “Woof! Woof!”
Two monks from Linji’s lineage came to visit; just as they lifted the curtain, the master said: “Watch out for the dog!” The two monks turned their heads to look, and the master returned to his quarters.
The master was hoeing the garden with Upādhyāya Shengguang. The master suddenly leaned on his hoe, looked back at Shengguang, and said: “The matter is not absent, but as soon as the mind deliberates, there is error.” Guang then bowed and was about to ask, but the master gave him a kick and returned to the cloister.
A nun came to visit. The master said: “Aren't you Liu Tiemo?”
The nun said: “I would not dare.”
The master said: “Turn left or turn right?”
The nun said: “Do not be mistaken, Upādhyāya.” The master struck her.
In the middle of the night, the master shouted in front of the monks' hall: “There's a thief!” The assembly all fled in alarm. The master went to the rear scaffold of the monks' hall, seized a monk, and shouted: “Karmadāna, I've caught him! I've caught him!”
The monk said: “It isn't me!”
The master said: “It is indeed you, you just refuse to take responsibility!”
The master had a verse instructing the assembly, which said: