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景德傳燈錄 15.35

景德傳燈錄 15.35

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Classical Chinese

15.35

投子感溫禪師(第二世住)僧問。師登寶座接示何人。師曰。如月覆千谿。僧曰。恁麼即滿地不虧也。師曰。莫恁麼道。僧問。父不投為什麼却投子。師曰。豈是別人屋裏事。僧曰。父與子還屬功也無。師曰。不屬。曰不屬功底如何。師曰。父子各自脫。曰為什麼如此。師曰。汝與我會。師遊山見蟬蛻殼。侍者問曰。殼在遮裏蟬子向什麼處去也。師拈殼就耳畔。搖三五下作蟬響聲。其僧於是開悟。

Chan Master Ganwen of Touzi (second generation abbot). A monk asked, "When the Master ascends the jewel seat, whom do you receive and instruct?" The Master said, "Like the moon covering a thousand streams." The monk said, "Then the whole ground lacks nothing." The Master said, "Do not speak like that." A monk asked, "Why did Touzi throw himself when the father did not throw himself?" The Master said, "How could it be a matter in another's house?" The monk said, "Do father and son still belong to effort?" The Master said, "They do not belong." The monk said, "What about that which does not belong to effort?" The Master said, "Father and son each extricate themselves." The monk said, "Why is it like this?" The Master said, "You understand it for me." The Master was roaming the mountains and saw a cicada shedding its shell. The attendant asked, "The shell is here; where has the cicada gone?" The Master picked up the shell, brought it to his ear, and shook it three or four times, making the sound of a cicada. That monk thereupon attained enlightenment.

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