景德傳燈錄 18.13

18.13

福州長生山皎然禪師本郡人。入雪峯室密受心印。執侍經十載。因與僧斫樹。雪峯曰。斫到心且住。師曰。斫却著。雪峯曰古人以心傳心。汝為什麼道斫却。師擲下斧子曰傳。雪峯打一拄杖而去。僧問雪峯。如何是第一句。雪峯良久。僧退舉似於師。師曰。此是第二句。雪峯再令其僧來。問如何是第一句。師曰蒼天蒼天。雪峯普請般柴。問師曰。古人道。誰知席帽下元是昔愁人。古人意作麼生。師側戴笠子曰。遮箇是什麼人語。雪峯問師。持經者能荷擔如來。作麼生是荷擔如來。師乃捧。雪峯向禪床上著。雪峯普請歸。自將一束藤路逢一僧。放下藤叉手立。其僧近前拈雪峯即蹋其僧歸院。後舉示於師曰。我今日蹋那僧得恁麼快。師對曰。和尚却替那僧入涅槃堂（法眼住崇壽寺時有二僧各說道理請師斷。法眼云。汝兩僧一時入涅槃堂。玄覺云。什麼處是替那僧入涅槃堂處。崇壽稠云。此一轉語却還老兄。東禪齊云。只如長生意作麼生）師嘗訪一庵主欵話。庵主曰。近有一僧問某甲西來意。遂舉拂子示之。不知還得也無。師曰。爭敢道得與不得。有人問庵主。此事有人保任如虎頭帶角。有人嫌棄則不直一文錢。此事為什麼毀譽不同。請試揀出看。曰適來出自偶然。爭揀得出。師曰。若恁麼此後不得為人（玄覺云。一等是恁麼事。為什麼有得有失。上座若無智眼難辨得失）雪峯問師。光境俱亡復是何物。師曰。放皎然過敢有商量。雪峯曰。許汝過作麼生商量。曰皎然亦放和尚過。雪峯深許之。尋受記止于長生山分化焉。僧問。從上宗乘如何舉唱。師曰。不可為闍梨荒却長生山也。問古人有言。無明即佛性煩惱不須除。如何是無明即佛性。師忿然作色舉拳呵曰。今日打遮師僧去也。僧曰。如何是煩惱不須除。師以手㧝頭曰。遮師僧得恁麼發人業。問路逢達道人不將語默對。未審將什麼對。師曰。上紙墨堪作什麼。閩帥署禪主大師。莫知所終。

Chan Master Jiaoran of Mount Changsheng in Fuzhou was a native of this commandery. Entering Xuefeng's room, he secretly received the mind-seal and served him personally for ten years. Once, while chopping down a tree with a monk, Xuefeng said, "When you chop down to the heart, stop." The Master said, "Chop it right off." Xuefeng said, "The ancients transmitted mind with mind. Why do you say to chop it off?" The Master threw down his axe and said, "Transmitted!" Xuefeng struck him with his staff and left. A monk asked Xuefeng, "What is the first phrase?" Xuefeng remained silent for a long time. The monk stepped back and related this to the Master. The Master said, "This is the second phrase." Xuefeng again bade that monk come, and [the monk] asked, "What is the first phrase?" The Master said, "Blue heaven, blue heaven!" During a communal labor to carry firewood, Xuefeng asked the Master, "An ancient said, 'Who knows that under the mat-hat is originally the former man of sorrow?' What was the ancient's meaning?" The Master wore his bamboo hat tilted to one side and said, "Whose words are these?" Xuefeng asked the Master, "One who upholds the sūtras is able to shoulder the Tathāgata. What is shouldering the Tathāgata?" The Master thereupon lifted Xuefeng and placed him onto the meditation bed. When Xuefeng returned from communal labor, he was personally carrying a bundle of rattan. Meeting a monk on the road, he put down the rattan, folded his hands, and stood. When the monk stepped forward to pick it up, Xuefeng kicked the monk and returned to the monastery. Later, he recounted it to the Master, saying, "Today, kicking that monk was so delightful!" The Master replied, "The Upādhyāya should instead enter the nirvāṇa hall on behalf of that monk." (When Fayan resided at Chongshou Temple, two monks each explained principles and asked the Master to judge. Fayan said, "Both of you monks enter the nirvāṇa hall at the same time." Xuanjue said, "What place is it to enter the nirvāṇa hall on behalf of that monk?" Chongshou Chou said, "This turning phrase is returned to the venerable elder brother." Dongchan Qi said, "Just as for Changsheng's meaning, what is it?") The Master once visited a hermitage master and chatted intimately. The hermitage master said, "Recently a monk asked me about the meaning of the [Patriarch's] coming from the West. Thereupon I raised the whisk and showed it to him. I wonder if it passed or not?" The Master said, "How could I dare say whether it passed or not? Someone asked the hermitage master: 'Regarding this matter, some maintain it like a tiger's head growing horns, while some despise and discard it as not worth a single cash. Why are the disparagement and praise of this matter not the same? Please try to pick it out and see.'" [The hermitage master] said, "What happened just now came out by chance; how could I pick it out?" The Master said, "If so, hereafter you may not act as a teacher for people." (Xuanjue said, "Equally being such a matter, why is there gain and loss? If a sthavira lacks the wisdom eye, it is difficult to distinguish gain and loss.") Xuefeng asked the Master, "When both light and realm are obliterated, what thing is it again?" The Master said, "If you let Jiaoran pass, I would dare to have a discussion." Xuefeng said, "I allow you to pass; how do you discuss it?" [The Master] said, "Jiaoran also lets the Upādhyāya pass." Xuefeng deeply approved of him. Soon he received prediction and resided on Mount Changsheng to branch out and transform beings. A monk asked, "How is the ancestral vehicle of the school expounded?" The Master said, "I cannot allow Mount Changsheng to go desolate for the Ācārya's sake." [A monk] asked, "An ancient had a saying: 'Ignorance is itself Buddha-nature; afflictions need not be eliminated.' What is ignorance being itself Buddha-nature?" The Master indignantly changed countenance, raised his fist, and scolded, "Today I shall beat this monk away!" The monk said, "What is afflictions needing not to be eliminated?" The Master scratched his head with his hand and said, "This monk manages to stir up a person's karma so much!" [A monk] asked, "When meeting a person who has attained the Way on the road, one should not respond with speech or silence. I wonder, what should one respond with?" The Master said, "What can be made on paper and ink?" The Military Commissioner of Min titled him Chan Master Dashi. It is not known where he ended his life.