景德傳燈錄 19.24

19.24

問如何是學人自己。師曰。遊山翫水。曰如何是和尚自己。師曰。賴遇維那不在。問一口吞盡時如何。師曰。我在汝肚裏。曰和尚為什麼在學人肚裏。師曰。還我話頭來。問如何是道。師曰去。曰學人不會請師道。師曰。闍梨公憑分明何得重判。問生死到來如何排遣。師展手曰。還我生死來。問如何是父母不聽。不得出家。師曰淺。曰學人不會。師曰深。問如何是學人自己。師曰。汝怕我不知。問萬機俱盡時如何。師曰。與我拈却佛殿來與汝商量。曰佛殿豈關他事。師喝曰。遮謾語漢。問如何是教外別傳一句。師曰。對眾將來。曰直得恁麼時如何。師曰。照從何立。問如何是和尚家風。師曰。門前有讀書人。問如何是透法身句。師曰。北斗裏藏身。問如何是西來意。師曰。久雨不晴。又曰。粥飯氣。問古人橫說竪說猶未知向上關棙子。如何是向上關棙子。師曰。西山東嶺青問如何是西來意。師曰。河裏失錢河裏漉。師有時坐良久。僧問何似釋迦當時。師曰。大眾立久快禮三拜。師嘗有頌曰。

A monk asked, "What is the student's own self?"
The Master said, "Roaming mountains and enjoying waters."
The monk said, "What is the upādhyāya's own self?"
The Master said, "Fortunately, the karmadāna happens not to be here."
[A monk] asked, "How is it when one swallows everything at a single gulp?"
The Master said, "I am inside your belly."
The monk said, "Why is the upādhyāya inside the student's belly?"
The Master said, "Give me back my topic of talk!"
[A monk] asked, "What is the Way?"
The Master said, "Go!"
The monk said, "The student does not understand; please, Master, speak."
The Master said, "Your travel clearance is clear—why must there be a re-judgment?"
[A monk] asked, "When birth-and-death arrives, how can it be dispelled?"
The Master held out his hand and said, "Give me back birth-and-death."
[A monk] asked, "What is 'If one's parents do not permit it, one may not leave the household'?"
The Master said, "Shallow."
The monk said, "The student does not understand."
The Master said, "Deep."
[A monk] asked, "What is the student's own self?"
The Master said, "Are you afraid I would not know?"
[A monk] asked, "How is it when the myriad operations are all exhausted?"
The Master said, "Take away the Buddha Hall for me, and I will discuss it with you."
The monk said, "How could the Buddha Hall have anything to do with that?"
The Master shouted and said, "You deceptive fellow!"
[A monk] asked, "What is the single phrase of the separate transmission outside the teachings?"
The Master said, "Bring it forward before the assembly!"
The monk said, "How is it when it is directly so?"
The Master said, "From where does illumination stand?"
[A monk] asked, "What is the upādhyāya's house style?"
The Master said, "There is a scholar in front of the gate."
[A monk] asked, "What is the phrase that penetrates the Dharmakāya?"
The Master said, "Hiding the body within the Northern Dipper."
[A monk] asked, "What is the meaning of the [Patriarch's] coming from the West?"
The Master said, "Prolonged rain without clearing." He also said, "The smell of gruel and rice."
[A monk] asked, "The ancients spoke horizontally and spoke vertically, yet still did not know the transcendental pivot. What is the transcendental pivot?"
The Master said, "The western mountain, the eastern ridge: green."
[A monk] asked, "What is the meaning of the [Patriarch's] coming from the West?"
The Master said, "Losing money in the river, straining it out in the river."
The Master sometimes sat for a long time. A monk asked, "What was it like with Śākyamuni back then?"
The Master said, "The assembly has stood for a long time; quickly make three prostrations." The Master once had a verse saying: