景德傳燈錄 22.78

22.78

益州青城香林院澄遠禪師。初住西川導江縣迎祥寺天王院（時謂水精宮）僧問。美味醍醐為什麼變成毒藥。師曰。導江紙。問見色便見心時如何。師曰。適來什麼處去來。曰心境俱亡時如何。師曰。開眼坐睡。師後住青城香林。僧問。北斗裏藏身意如何。師曰。月似彎弓少雨多風。問如何是諸佛心。師曰。清即始終清。曰如何領會。師曰。莫受人謾好。問如何是祖師西來意。師曰。蹋步者誰。問如何是和尚妙藥。師曰。不離眾味。曰喫者如何。師曰。𠯗啗看。問如何是室內一燈。師曰。三人證龜成鼈。問如何是衲衣下事。師曰。臘月火燒山。問大眾雲集請師施設。師曰。三不待兩。問如何是學人時中事。師曰。恰恰。問如何是玄。師曰。今日來明日去。曰如何是玄中玄。師曰。長連床上。問如何是香林一脈泉。師曰。念無間斷。曰飲者如何。師曰。隨方斗秤。問如何是衲僧正眼。師曰。不分別。曰照用事如何。師曰。行路人失脚。問萬機俱泯迹方識本來人時如何。師曰。清機自顯。曰恁麼即不別人。師曰。方見本來人。問魚游陸地時如何。師曰。發言必有後救。僧曰。却下碧潭時如何。師曰。頭重尾輕。問但有言句盡是賓。如何是主。師曰。長安城裏。曰如何領會。師曰。千家萬戶。

Chan Master Chengyuan of Xianglin Monastery on Mount Qingcheng in Yizhou first resided at the Heavenly King Cloister of Yingxiang Monastery in Daojiang County, Xichuan (at that time called the Crystal Palace). A monk asked, "Why does delicious ghee turn into poison?"
The Master said, "Daojiang paper."
[The monk] asked, "How is it when seeing form is immediately seeing the mind?"
The Master said, "Where have you just been?"
[The monk] asked, "How is it when both mind and objects are forgotten?"
The Master said, "Sitting and sleeping with eyes open."
Later, the Master resided at Xianglin on Mount Qingcheng. A monk asked, "What is the meaning of hiding one's body within the Northern Dipper?"
The Master said, "The moon is like a bent bow; little rain, much wind."
[The monk] asked, "What is the mind of all the Buddhas?"
The Master said, "Clear, then from beginning to end it is clear."
[The monk] asked, "How does one understand this?"
The Master said, "It is best not to be deceived by others."
[The monk] asked, "What is the meaning of the ancestral teacher's coming from the West?"
The Master said, "Who is the one stepping forward?"
[The monk] asked, "What is the Upādhyāya's wondrous medicine?"
The Master said, "Not departing from the many flavors."
[The monk] asked, "How is it for one who takes it?"
The Master said, "Chew and see."
[The monk] asked, "What is the single lamp within the room?"
The Master said, "Three people testify that a turtle is a soft-shelled turtle."
[The monk] asked, "What is the matter under the patch-robe?"
The Master said, "In the twelfth month, fire burns the mountain."
[The monk] asked, "The great assembly has gathered like clouds; we ask the Master to provide [teachings]."
The Master said, "Three does not wait for two."
[The monk] asked, "What is the student's task throughout the day?"
The Master said, "Exactly so."
[The monk] asked, "What is the profound?"
The Master said, "Coming today, going tomorrow."
[The monk] asked, "What is the profound within the profound?"
The Master said, "Upon the long contiguous platforms."
[The monk] asked, "What is the single spring of Xianglin?"
The Master said, "Thoughts without interruption."
[The monk] asked, "How is it for one who drinks it?"
The Master said, "Pecks and balances according to each region."
[The monk] asked, "What is the patch-robed monk's correct Dharma eye?"
The Master said, "Non-discrimination."
[The monk] asked, "What about the function of illumination and action?"
The Master said, "A traveler slips and stumbles."
[The monk] asked, "How is it when all myriad functions have vanished without a trace, only then recognizing the original person?"
The Master said, "The pure function reveals itself."
[The monk] said, "If so, then it is not someone else."
The Master said, "Only then does one see the original person."
[The monk] asked, "How is it when a fish swims on dry land?"
The Master said, "Speaking words must be followed by rescue."
The monk said, "How is it when it returns down into the clear green pool?"
The Master said, "The head is heavy and the tail is light."
[The monk] asked, "Whenever there are spoken phrases, they are all the guest; what is the host?"
The Master said, "Within the city of Chang'an."
[The monk] asked, "How does one understand this?"
The Master said, "A thousand families and ten thousand households."