景德傳燈錄 23.94

23.94

揚州風化院令崇禪師（第一世住）舒州宿松人。七歲出家。二十登戒。契緣於雲居懷岳和尚。開法於信州鵝湖。廬州節帥周本於維揚西南隅創院請師居之。僧問如。何是敵國一著棊。師曰。下將來。問一棒打破虛空時如何。師曰。把將一片來。

Chan Master Lingchong of Fenghua Cloister in Yangzhou (first generation residing) was a native of Susong in Shuzhou. He left home at age seven and took full ordination at twenty. Matching conditions with Upādhyāya Huaiyue of Yunju, he opened his Dharma teaching at Ehu in Xinzhou. Zhou Ben, military commissioner of Luzhou, founded a cloister in the southwestern corner of Weiyang and invited the Master to reside there. A monk asked, “What is the single chess move that counters an entire state?” The Master said, “Play it down.” The monk asked, “What is it like when a single staff shatters empty space?” The Master said, “Bring a piece of it.”