景德傳燈錄 11.35

11.35

隴州國清院奉禪師。問祖意與教意同別。師曰。雨滋三草秀。春風不裹頭。僧曰。畢竟是一是二。師曰。祥雲競起巖洞不虧。問如何是和尚家風。師曰。臺柈椅子火爐牕牖。問如何是出家人。曰銅頭鐵額鳥嘴鹿身。僧曰。如何是出家人本分事。師曰。早起不審夜間珍重。僧問牛頭未見四祖時。為什麼鳥獸銜花。師曰。如陝府人送錢財與鐵牛。曰見後為什麼不街花。師曰。木馬投明行八百。問十二時中如何降伏其心。師曰。敲氷求火論劫不逢。問十二分教是止啼之義。離却止啼請師一句。師曰。孤峯頂上雙角女。問如何是佛法大意。師曰。釋迦是牛頭獄卒。祖師是馬面阿婆。問如何是西來意。師曰。東壁打西壁。問如何是撲不破底句。師曰。不隔毫釐時人遠嚮。

Chan Master Feng of the Guoqing Cloister in Longzhou. [A monk] asked whether the ancestral meaning and the meaning of the teachings are the same or different. The Master said, "The rain nourishes the three grasses to flourish; the spring breeze does not wrap the head." The monk said, "Ultimately, is it one or two?" The Master said, "Auspicious clouds gather in competition; the rock cave suffers no loss." [A monk] asked, "What is the Upādhyāya's house style?" The Master said, "Tables, trays, chairs, fire hearth, and windows." [A monk] asked, "What is a person who has left home?" [The Master] said, "Copper head, iron forehead, bird's beak, and deer's body." The monk said, "What is the proper affair of a person who has left home?" The Master said, "In the morning, 'How are you?'; at night, 'Take care.'" A monk asked, "Before Niutou saw the Fourth Patriarch, why did birds and beasts hold flowers in their beaks [to offer him]?" The Master said, "Like the people of Shanzhou presenting wealth and treasures to the iron ox." [The monk] said, "Why did they not hold flowers in their beaks after he saw him?" The Master said, "The wooden horse gallops eight hundred [li] into the dawn." [A monk] asked, "Throughout the twelve periods of the day, how does one subdue one's mind?" The Master said, "Striking ice to seek fire: you will not find it in eons." [A monk] asked, "The twelve divisions of the canon have the function of stopping a child's crying. Setting aside the stopping of crying, please, Master, speak a phrase." The Master said, "On top of the solitary peak, a two-horned woman." [A monk] asked, "What is the great meaning of the Buddha Dharma?" The Master said, "Śākyamuni is an ox-headed jailer; the Ancestral Master is a horse-faced old woman." [A monk] asked, "What is the meaning of [the Patriarch's] coming from the West?" The Master said, "The east wall strikes the west wall." [A monk] asked, "What is an unbreakable phrase?" The Master said, "Without the separation of a hair's breadth, people of the world look toward it from afar."