景德傳燈錄 20.25

20.25

筠州洞山道延禪師（第四世住時號鹿頭和尚）始因曹山和尚垂語云。有一人向萬丈崖頭騰身擲下此是什麼人。眾皆無對。師出對曰。不存。曹山曰。不存箇什麼。曰始得撲不碎。曹山深肯之。僧問。請和尚密付真心。師曰。欺者裏無人作麼。

Chan Master Daoyan of Mount Dongshan in Yunzhou (the fourth generation to reside there, known at the time as Upādhyāya Hutou) was once asked by Upādhyāya Caoshan, who posed this saying: "There is a person who leaps and casts his body down from a cliff of ten thousand fathoms; what kind of person is this?" No one in the assembly could answer. The Master came forward and replied: "He does not remain." Caoshan said: "He does not remain where?" He said: "Only then can he avoid being smashed to pieces." Caoshan deeply approved him. A monk asked: "Please, Upādhyāya, secretly bestow the true mind." The Master said: "Why do you treat this place as though there were no one here?"