景德傳燈錄 12.15

12.15

晉州霍山景通禪師初參仰山。仰山閉目坐。師曰。如是如是。西天二十八祖亦如是。中華六祖亦如是。和尚亦如是。景通亦如是。語訖向右邊翹一足而立。仰山起來打四藤杖。師因此自稱集雲峯下四藤條天下大禪佛（歸宗下亦有大禪佛。名智通。終於五臺）後住霍山。有行者問。如何是佛法大意。師乃禮拜。行者曰。和尚為什麼禮俗人。師曰。汝不見道尊重弟子。師問僧。什麼處來。僧提起坐具。師云。龍頭蛇尾。僧問。如何是佛。師打之。僧亦打師。師曰。汝打我有道理。我打汝無道理。僧無對。師乃打趁。師化緣將畢。先備薪於郊野遍辭檀信。食訖行至薪所。謂弟子曰。日午當來報至日午。師自執燈登積薪上。以笠置頂後作圓光相。手執拄杖作降魔杵勢。立終於紅焰中。

Chan Master Jingtong of Mount Huo in Jinzhou first called on Yangshan. Yangshan sat with his eyes closed. The master said, 'Just so, just so! The twenty-eight patriarchs of the Western Heavens were also just so. The six patriarchs of China were also just so. The upādhyāya is also just so. Jingtong is also just so.' Having spoken, he turned to the right, raised one foot, and stood. Yangshan got up and struck him four times with a rattan cane. Because of this, the master called himself 'the Great Chan Buddha under Cloud-Gathering Peak, struck with four rattan canes throughout the realm.' (Under Guizong there was also a 'Great Chan Buddha,' named Zhitong, who passed away at Wutai.) Later he resided at Mount Huo. A practitioner asked, 'What is the great meaning of the Buddha Dharma?' The master then bowed. The practitioner said, 'Why does the upādhyāya bow to a layperson?' The master said, 'Have you not heard it said: "Respect the disciple"?' The master asked a monk, 'Where have you come from?' The monk held up his sitting cloth. The master said, 'Dragon's head, snake's tail.' A monk asked, 'What is the Buddha?' The master struck him. The monk also struck the master. The master said, 'There is reason for you striking me; there is no reason for my striking you.' The monk had no reply. The master then beat him out. When the master's transformative karmic conditions were about to end, he first prepared firewood in the suburbs, and took leave of all the donors and believers. Having eaten, he walked to the place where the wood was piled and said to his disciples, 'Report to me when it is noon.' When noon arrived, the master held a lamp himself, climbed upon the pile of firewood, placed a bamboo hat behind his head to form the sign of a halo, held a walking stick in his hand in the posture of a demon-subduing pestle, and passed away standing amidst the red flames.