景德傳燈錄 19.5

19.5

襄州雲蓋山雙泉院歸本禪師（亦曰西雙泉。以隋州有東雙泉故也）京兆府人也。幼出家。十六納戒念法華經。初禮雪峯。雪峯下禪床跨背而坐。師於是省覺。僧問。如何是雙泉。師曰可惜一雙眉。曰學人不會。師曰。不曾煩禹力湍流事不知。問如何是西來的的意。師乃搊住。其僧變色。師曰。我遮裏無遮箇。師手指纖長特異于人。號手相大師。

Chan Master Guiben of Shuangquan Monastery on Mount Yunggai in Xiangzhou (also called West Shuangquan, because there was an East Shuangquan in Suizhou) was a native of Jingzhao Prefecture. He left home in his youth. At sixteen he received the precepts and recited the Lotus Sūtra. When he first paid homage to Xuefeng, Xuefeng stepped down from the meditation bed and sat astride his back. At this, the master attained awakening. A monk asked, 'What is Shuangquan [Two Springs]?' The master said, 'A pity for that pair of eyebrows!' The monk said, 'This student does not understand.' The master said, 'Without ever troubling the strength of Yu, / One knows nothing of torrential waters.' He asked, 'What is the exact meaning of the [Patriarch's] coming from the West?' The master grabbed hold of him. The monk changed color. The master said, 'I do not have that here.' The master's fingers were slender and long, markedly different from ordinary people, so he was called Great Master Hand-Characteristics.