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# 景德傳燈錄 23.8

景德傳燈錄 23.8

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [23.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.23.8)

襄州洞山守初崇慧大師。初參雲門。雲門問。近離什麼處。師曰。楂渡。門曰。夏在甚處。師曰。湖南報慈。曰甚時離彼。師曰。八月二十五。門曰。放汝三頓棒。師至明日却上問訊。曰昨日蒙和尚放三頓棒。不知過在什麼處。門曰。飯袋子。江西湖南便與麼師於言下大悟。遂云從今已去。向十字街頭。不畜一粒米。不種一莖菜。接待十方往來一箇箇。教伊拈却膱脂帽子脫却鶻臭布衫。教伊洒洒落落地作箇明眼衲僧。豈不快哉。雲門云。飯袋子。身如椰子大。開得許大口。師住後僧問。迢迢一路時如何。師曰。天晴不肯去直待雨淋頭。曰諸聖作麼生。師曰。入泥入水。問心未生時法在什麼處。師曰。風吹荷葉動決定有魚行。問師登師子座請師唱道情。師曰。晴乾開水道無事設曹司。曰恁麼即謝師指示。師曰。賣鞋老婆脚䟐趚（上郎擊切。下七迹切）。問如何是三寶。師曰。商量不下。問如何是無縫塔師曰。十字街頭石師子。問如何是免得生死底法。師曰。見之不取思之三年。問離却心機意識請師一句。師曰。道士著黃瓮裏坐。問非時親覲請師一句。師曰。到處怎生舉。曰據現定舉。師曰。放汝三十棒。曰過在什麼處。師曰。罪不重科。問蓮華未出水時如何。師曰。楚山頭倒卓。曰出水後如何。師曰。漢水正東流。問如何是吹毛劍。師曰。金州客尼。問車住牛不住時如何。師曰。用駕車漢作麼。問如何是衲僧分上事。師曰。雲裏楚山頭決定多風雨。問海竭人亡時如何。師曰。難得。曰便恁麼去時如何。師曰。雲在青天水在缾。問有無雙泯權實兩忘究竟如何。師曰。楚山頭倒卓。曰還許學人領會也無。師曰。也有方便。曰請師方便。師曰。千里萬里。問牛頭未見四祖時如何。師曰。榔栗木拄杖。曰見後如何。師曰。竇八布衫。問如何是佛。師曰。灼然諦當。問萬緣俱息意旨如何。師曰。甕裏石人賣棗團。問如何是洞山劍。師曰。作麼。僧曰。學人要知。師曰。罪過。問乾坤休著意宇宙不留心。學人只恁麼。師又作麼生。師曰。峴山亭起霧灘峻不留船問大眾雲臻。請師撮其樞要略舉大綱。師曰。水上浮漚呈五色。海底蝦蟇叫月明。問正當恁麼時文殊普賢在什麼處。師曰。長者八十一其樹不生耳。曰意旨如何。師曰。一則不成二則不是。

> Great Master Chonghui Shouchu of Dongshan in Xiangzhou initially studied under Yunmen. Yunmen asked, “Where did you leave recently?”  
> The master said, “Zhadu.”  
> Yunmen said, “Where did you spend the summer retreat?”  
> The master said, “Baoci in Hunan.”  
> Yunmen said, “When did you leave there?”  
> The master said, “The twenty-fifth day of the eighth month.”  
> Yunmen said, “I give you thirty blows of the staff \[to reflect upon\].”  
> The next day the master went back to inquire \[of him\], saying, “Yesterday I received the upādhyāya’s thirty blows of the staff, but I do not know where my fault lay.”  
> Yunmen said, “Rice bag! Jiangxi and Hunan were just like that!”  
> At these words the master had a great awakening. He then said, “From this day forward, I will go to a crossroads; I will not store a single grain of rice, nor plant a single stalk of vegetables. I will receive those coming and going from the ten directions, one by one, and make them take off their greasy caps and cast off their foul-smelling hemp robes, making them completely unbound, clear-eyed patch-robed monks! Would that not be delightful?”  
> Yunmen said, “Rice bag! Your body is as big as a coconut, yet you open such a huge mouth!”  
> After the master took up residence \[as abbot\], a monk asked, “How is it when one travels the distant road?”  
> The master said, “When the sky is clear you are unwilling to go; you just wait until the rain pours down on your head.”  
> \[The monk\] asked, “What about the sages?”  
> The master said, “Entering the mud and entering the water.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “When the mind has not yet arisen, where are phenomena?”  
> The master said, “When the wind blows and the lotus leaves move, there are definitely fish swimming.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “The master has mounted the lion seat; please, master, chant the sentiments of the Way.”  
> The master said, “When it is dry and sunny, opening a water channel; when there is nothing to do, establishing a government bureau.”  
> \[The monk\] said, “Then I thank the master for your pointing out.”  
> The master said, “The old woman selling shoes has trembling feet.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “What are the Three Jewels?”  
> The master said, “They cannot be settled by discussion.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “What is the seamless stūpa?”  
> The master said, “The stone lion at the crossroads.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “What is the Dharma that avoids birth and death?”  
> The master said, “See it and do not grasp it; ponder it for three years.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “Leaving aside mind, intellect, and consciousness, please give a phrase, master.”  
> The master said, “A Daoist priest wearing yellow sits inside an earthen jar.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “Seeing you at an improper time, please give a phrase, master.”  
> The master said, “Everywhere, how do they bring it up?”  
> \[The monk\] said, “They bring it up according to what is presently fixed.”  
> The master said, “I give you thirty blows of the staff.”  
> \[The monk\] said, “Where is the fault?”  
> The master said, “An offense is not punished twice.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “How is it before the lotus flower emerges from the water?”  
> The master said, “The peak of Mount Chu is turned upside down.”  
> \[The monk\] said, “How is it after it emerges from the water?”  
> The master said, “The Han River flows straight to the east.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “What is the sword that cuts a blowing hair?”  
> The master said, “A guest nun from Jinzhou.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “How is it when the cart stops but the ox does not stop?”  
> The master said, “What use is the cart driver?”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “What is the matter that pertains to a patch-robed monk?”  
> The master said, “The peak of Mount Chu amidst the clouds is sure to have much wind and rain.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “How is it when the sea dries up and the person dies?”  
> The master said, “Rare to attain.”  
> \[The monk\] said, “How is it when one goes on just like that?”  
> The master said, “Clouds are in the blue sky; water is in the pitcher.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “When both existence and non-existence are extinguished, and both provisional and ultimate are forgotten, how is it ultimately?”  
> The master said, “The peak of Mount Chu is turned upside down.”  
> \[The monk\] said, “Do you still permit the student to comprehend it?”  
> The master said, “There are also skillful means.”  
> \[The monk\] said, “Please, master, \[give\] a skillful means.”  
> The master said, “A thousand miles, ten thousand miles.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “How was it before Niutou met the Fourth Patriarch?”  
> The master said, “A staff of staff-wood.”  
> \[The monk\] said, “How was it after meeting him?”  
> The master said, “Dou the Eighth’s cloth robe.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “What is Buddha?”  
> The master said, “Clearly true and accurate.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “When all conditions are at rest, what is the meaning?”  
> The master said, “The stone man inside the jar sells date cakes.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “What is Dongshan’s sword?”  
> The master said, “What?”  
> The monk said, “The student wishes to know.”  
> The master said, “Sinful error!”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “When heaven and earth are paid no heed, and the universe is left without mind, the student is just like this; what about you, master?”  
> The master said, “Fog rises at the Xianshan Pavilion; the rapid shallows do not keep the boat.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “The great assembly has gathered like clouds. Please, master, grasp the pivotal essence and briefly bring forth the main outline.”  
> The master said, “Floating foam on the water displays five colors; toads at the bottom of the sea croak at the bright moon.”  
> \[A monk\] asked, “Just at such a time, where are Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra?”  
> The master said, “The elder is eighty-one; his tree bears no ears \[of fungus\].”  
> \[The monk\] said, “What is the meaning?”  
> The master said, “One does not succeed; two is not right.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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