景德傳燈錄 26.120

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潭州雲蓋山海會寺用清禪師河州人也。姓趙氏。本州出家酷志求法。遠參長安潛契宗旨。先住韶州東平山。淳化二年知潭州張茂宗請居雲蓋（第六世住）僧問。有一人在萬丈井底如何出得。師曰。且喜得相見。曰恁麼即穿雲透月去也。師曰。三十三天事作麼生。僧無語。問如何是雲蓋境。師曰。門外三泉井。曰如何是境中人。師曰。童行作子。師有頌示眾曰。

Chan Master Yongqing of Haihui Temple on Mount Yungai in Tanzhou was a native of Hezhou. His surname was Zhao. Leaving home in his home prefecture, he sought the Dharma with fierce resolve. Travelling from afar to participate at Chang'an, he secretly harmonized with the ancestral principle. He first resided at Mount Dongping in Shaozhou. In the second year of the Chunhua era, the prefect of Tanzhou, Zhang Maozong, invited him to reside at Yungai (as abbot of the sixth generation). A monk asked: "There is a person at the bottom of a ten-thousand-fathom well; how can he get out?" The master said: "I am just glad to meet you." The monk said: "Then he pierces the clouds and penetrates the moon." The master said: "What about the affairs of the Trayastriṃśa Heaven?" The monk had no words. He asked: "What is the environment of Yungai?" The master said: "Outside the gate are three spring-wells." He asked: "What about the person within the environment?" The master said: "A postulant making offerings." The master had a verse to show the assembly, saying: