景德傳燈錄 24.5

24.5

襄州清谿山洪進禪師（曾住鄧州谷口）在地藏時居第一座。一日有二僧禮拜。地藏和尚曰。俱錯。二僧無語。下堂請益修山主。修曰。汝自巍巍堂堂。却禮拜擬問他人。豈不是錯。師聞之不肯。修乃問曰。未審上座作麼生。師曰。汝自迷暗焉可為人。修憤然上法堂請益地藏。地藏指廊下曰。典座入庫頭去也。修乃省過。又一日師問修山主曰。明知生是不生之性。為什麼為生之所留。修曰。筍畢竟成竹去。如今作篾使還得麼。師曰。汝向後自悟去。曰紹修所見只如此。上坐意旨如何。師曰。遮箇是監院房。那箇是典座房。修禮謝。師住後有僧問。眾盲摸象各說異端。忽遇明眼人又作麼生。師曰。汝但舉似諸方。師經行次眾僧隨從。乃謂眾曰。古人有什麼言句大家商量。時有從漪上座出眾擬問次。師曰。遮勿毛驢。漪渙漪然省悟（漪後住天平山）。

Chan Master Hongjin of Mount Qingxi in Xiangzhou (who once resided at Gukou in Dengzhou) was the first seat when he was at Dizang. One day, two monks made prostrations. Master Dizang said, "Both are mistaken." The two monks had nothing to say. They went down from the hall and sought further instruction from Mountain Master Xiu. Xiu said, "You are yourselves towering and imposing, yet you prostrate yourselves intending to ask another person. How is that not a mistake?" When the Master heard this, he did not agree. Xiu then asked, "I do not know what the sthavira would say." The Master said, "You are yourself deluded and ignorant; how can you act as a guide for others?" Indignant, Xiu went up to the Dharma hall to seek instruction from Dizang. Dizang pointed beneath the corridor and said, "The tenzo has gone into the storehouse." Xiu thereupon realised his fault. On another day, the Master asked Mountain Master Xiu, "Clearly knowing that birth is the nature of non-birth, why are you retained by birth?" Xiu said, "A bamboo shoot will ultimately become bamboo. Can it be used right now to make bamboo strips?" The Master said, "Later on you will awaken for yourself." Xiu said, "What Shaoxiu sees is only like this. What is the sthavira's intended meaning?" The Master said, "This is the supervisor's room; that is the tenzo's room." Xiu bowed in thanks. After the Master took up residence, a monk asked, "When the blind men touch the elephant, each describes a different aspect. If they suddenly meet someone with clear eyes, what then?" The Master said, "Just bring it forward to present to the various quarters." When the Master was walking in meditation, the monks followed him. He said to the assembly, "What words and phrases do the ancients have? Let us discuss them together." At that time, Sthavira Congyi came out from the assembly and was about to ask, when the Master said, "This blind ass!" Yi had a flowing breakthrough to awakening. (Yi later resided at Mount Tianping.)