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# 景德傳燈錄 19.24

景德傳燈錄 19.24

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [19.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.19.24)

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:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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