景德傳燈錄 11.49

11.49

婺州金華山俱胝和尚初住庵。有尼名實際。到庵戴笠子執錫繞師三匝云。道得即拈下笠子。三問。師皆無對。尼便去。師曰。日勢稍晚且留一宿。尼曰。道得即宿。師又無對。尼去後歎曰。我雖處丈夫之形。而無丈夫之氣。擬棄庵往諸方參尋。其夜山神告曰。不須離此山。將有大菩薩來為和尚說法也。果旬日天龍和尚到庵。師乃迎禮具陳前事。天龍竪一指而示之。師當下大悟。自此凡有參學僧到。師唯舉一指無別提唱。有一童子於外被人詰曰。和尚說何法要。童子竪起指頭。歸而舉似師。師以刀斷其指頭。童子叫喚走出。師召一聲。童子回首。師却竪起指頭。童子豁然領解。師將順世。謂眾曰。吾得天龍一指頭禪一生用不盡。言訖示滅（長慶代眾云。美食不中飽人喫。玄沙云。我當時若見。抝折指頭。玄覺云。且道。玄沙恁麼道意作麼生。雲居錫云。只如玄沙恁麼道。肯伊不肯伊。若肯何言抝折指頭。若不肯俱胝過在什麼處。先曹山云。俱胝承當處鹵莾。只認得一機一境一種。是拍手拊掌是他西園奇怪。玄覺又云。且道俱胝還悟也未。若悟為什麼道承當處莾鹵。若不悟又道用一指頭禪不盡。且道曹山意旨在什麼處）。

Upādhyāya Juzhi of Mount Jinhua in Wuzhou initially lived in a hermitage. There was a nun named Shiji who arrived at the hermitage wearing a bamboo hat and holding a monk's staff. She walked around the Master three times and said, "If you can speak, I will take off my hat." She asked three times, but the Master had no reply to any of them. The nun then started to leave.
The Master said, "The day is getting late; please stay for one night."
The nun said, "If you can speak, I will stay." The Master again had no reply.
After the nun left, [the Master] sighed and said, "Although I inhabit the form of a great man, I lack the spirit of a great man. I intend to abandon the hermitage and travel to various places to seek instruction."
That night, the mountain deity told him, "You need not leave this mountain. A great bodhisattva will come to preach the Dharma for the Upādhyāya."
Sure enough, after ten days Upādhyāya Tianlong came to the hermitage. The Master welcomed him with bows and recounted the preceding events in full. Tianlong held up one finger and showed it to him. The Master had a great awakening right on the spot.
From then on, whenever a monk seeking instruction arrived, the Master only raised one finger and gave no other instruction. There was an attendant boy who was questioned outside by someone, "What essential Dharma does the Upādhyāya teach?" The boy held up a finger. When he returned, he related this to the Master. The Master severed his finger with a knife. The boy cried out and ran outside. The Master called to him once; the boy turned his head, and the Master held up a finger. The boy had an instantaneous awakening.
When the Master was about to pass away, he said to the assembly, "I obtained Tianlong's one-finger Chan, and have not exhausted its use throughout my whole life." Having spoken these words, he manifested cessation.
(Changqing spoke on behalf of the assembly, "Delicious food does not satisfy one who is already sated." Xuansha said, "Had I seen him at that time, I would have snapped his finger." Xuanjue said, "Now tell me, what was Xuansha's intention in speaking thus?" Yunju Xi said, "Just as Xuansha spoke in that manner, did he approve of him or not approve of him? If he approved, why did he say he would snap his finger? If he did not approve, where was Juzhi's fault?" The former Caoshan said, "The place where Juzhi undertook it was reckless. He only recognized one function, one realm, and one kind. That is clapping hands and striking palms; that was his strange matter of the Western Garden." Xuanjue said further, "Now tell me, was Juzhi awakened or not yet? If he was awakened, why is it said that the place where he undertook it was reckless? If he was not awakened, why did he say that he had not exhausted the use of the one-finger Chan? Now tell me, where did Caoshan's intention lie?")