景德傳燈錄 17.61

17.61

台州六通院紹禪師。初參涌泉和尚入室領旨。一日燒畬歸院。泉問。去什麼處來。師曰。燒畬來。泉曰。火後事作麼生。紹曰。鐵蛇鑽不入。泉許之。後居六通院玄侶依附。僧問。不出咽喉唇吻事如何。師曰。待汝一钁斸斷巾子山。我亦不向汝道。問南山有一毒龍如何近得。師曰。非但闍梨千聖亦近不得。人問。承聞南方有一劍話。如何是一劍。師曰。不當鋒。曰頭落又作麼生。師曰。我道不當鋒有什麼頭。其人禮謝而去。師休夏入天台山華頂峯晦迹。莫知所終。

Chan Master Shao of Liutong Monastery in Taizhou. When he first called upon Upādhyāya Yongquan, he entered the room and grasped the essential principle. One day, returning to the monastery after burning brush for planting, Yongquan asked, "Where have you come from?" The Master said, "I have come from burning brush." Yongquan said, "What about the matter after the fire?" Shao said, "An iron snake cannot bore in." Yongquan approved of him. Later he resided at Liutong Monastery, where followers of the mysterious gathered around him. A monk asked, "What is the matter that does not leave the throat and lips?" The Master said, "Wait until you sever Mount Jinzi with a single hoe, and I still will not speak to you." [A monk] asked, "There is a poisonous dragon on the Southern Mountain; how can one approach it?" The Master said, "Not only the ācārya, but even a thousand sages cannot approach it." Someone asked, "I have heard that in the south there is a saying about a single sword. What is the single sword?" The Master said, "It does not face the edge." [The person] said, "What if the head falls off?" The Master said, "I say it does not face the edge; what head is there?" The person bowed in gratitude and departed. The Master retired after the summer retreat, entered Huading Peak on Mount Tiantai to conceal his traces, and his end is not known.