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# 景德傳燈錄 11.53

景德傳燈錄 11.53

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [11.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.11.53)

襄州關南道吾和尚。始經村墅聞巫者樂神云識神無。師忽然惺悟。後參常禪師印其所解。復遊德山門下法味彌著。凡上堂示徒。戴蓮花笠披襴執簡。擊鼓吹笛口稱魯三郎。有時云。打動關南鼓。唱起德山歌。僧問。如何是祖師西來意。師以簡揖云喏。師有時執木劍橫在肩上作舞。僧問。手中劍什麼處得來。師擲於地。僧却置師手中。師曰。什麼處得來。僧無對。師曰。容汝三日內下取一語。其僧亦無對。師自代拈劍肩上作舞云。恁麼始得。問如何是和尚家風。師下禪床作女人拜云。謝子遠來都無祇待。師問灌溪。作麼生。灌溪云。無位。師云。莫同虛空麼。云遮屠兒。師云。有生可殺即不倦。漳州羅漢和尚。始於關南常禪師拳下悟旨（語見常禪師章）乃為歌曰。

> Upādhyāya Daowu of Guannan in Xiangzhou. Initially, when passing through a rural village, he heard a shaman entertaining a spirit say, "There is no spirit of consciousness!" The Master suddenly awoke to enlightenment. Later he studied under Chan Master Chang, who sealed what he had understood. He further traveled to the gate of Deshan, where his flavor of the Dharma became even more pronounced.  
> Whenever he took the high seat to instruct his disciples, he would wear a lotus hat, put on a monk's robe, hold a tablet, beat a drum, blow a flute, and call himself "Lu the Third Son." Sometimes he would say, "Strike the drum of Guannan; sing the song of Deshan!"  
> A monk asked, "What is the meaning of the Ancestral Master's coming from the West?"  
> The Master made a bow with the tablet and said, "Yes!"  
> Sometimes the Master would hold a wooden sword across his shoulder and dance. A monk asked, "Where did the sword in your hand come from?"  
> The Master threw it to the ground. The monk picked it up and put it back into the Master's hands.  
> The Master said, "Where did it come from?"  
> The monk had no reply.  
> The Master said, "I allow you three days to present a phrase." That monk still had no reply.  
> The Master took up the sword himself, danced with it on his shoulder, and said, "Only like this will do."  
> \[A monk\] asked, "What is the Upādhyāya's house style?"  
> The Master stepped down from the meditation seat, bowed like a woman, and said, "Thank you for coming from afar; I have treated you with no hospitality at all."  
> The Master asked Guanxi, "How is it?"  
> Guanxi said, "No station."  
> The Master said, "Is it not identical to empty space?"  
> \[Guanxi\] said, "This butcher!"  
> The Master said, "If there were living beings to kill, I would not grow weary."  
> Upādhyāya Luohan of Zhangzhou initially awakened to the purport under the fist of Chan Master Chang of Guannan (the words are seen in the chapter on Chan Master Chang). He then composed a song, saying:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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