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景德傳燈錄 14.16

景德傳燈錄 14.16

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Classical Chinese

14.16

翱又問。如何是戒定慧。師曰。貧道遮裏無此閑家具。翱莫測玄旨。師曰。太守欲得保任此事。直須向高高山頂坐深深海底行。閨閤中物捨不得便為滲漏。師一夜登山經行。忽雲開見月大笑。一聲應澧陽東九十許里。居民盡謂東家。明晨迭相推問直至藥山。徒眾云。昨夜和尚山頂大笑。李翱再贈詩曰。

Ao asked again, “What are discipline, concentration, and wisdom?”
The Master said, “In this poor monk’s place, there is no such idle furniture.”
Ao could not fathom the profound meaning.
The Master said, “If the prefect wishes to maintain this matter, you must sit on the highest mountaintop and walk on the deepest ocean floor. What is in the bedchambers, if you cannot abandon it, will turn into an outflow.”

One night the Master was walking on the mountain and practicing circumambulation. Suddenly the clouds parted to reveal the moon, and he let out a great laugh, a single sound echoing over ninety li to the east of Liyang. The local residents all thought it was the house to their east. The next morning they inquired back and forth until reaching Yaoshan.
The disciples said, “Last night the Upādhyāya laughed loudly atop the mountain.”
Li Ao again presented a poem:

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