景德傳燈錄 6.12

6.12

撫州石鞏慧藏禪師。本以弋獵為務。惡見沙門。因逐群鹿從馬祖庵前過。祖乃逆之。藏問。和尚見鹿過否。祖曰。汝是何人。曰獵者。祖曰。汝解射否。曰射射。祖曰。汝一箭射幾箇。曰一箭射一箇。祖曰。汝不解射。曰和尚解射否。祖曰。解射。曰和尚一箭射幾箇。祖曰。一箭射一群。曰彼此是命。何用射他一群。祖曰。汝既知如是。何不自射。曰若教某甲自射。即無下手處。祖曰。遮漢曠劫無明。煩惱今日頓息。藏當時毀棄弓箭。自以刀截髮投祖出家。一日在厨中作務次。祖問曰。作什麼曰。牧牛。祖曰。作麼生牧。曰一迴入草去便把鼻孔拽來。祖曰。子真牧牛。師便休。師住後常以弓箭接機（如三平和尚章述之）師問西堂。汝還解捉得虛空麼。西堂云。捉得。師云。作麼生捉。堂以手撮虛空。師云。作麼生恁麼捉虛空。堂却問。師兄作麼生捉。師把西堂鼻孔拽。西堂作忍痛聲。云大殺拽人鼻孔直得脫去。師云。直須恁麼捉虛空始得。眾僧參次。師云。適來底什麼處去也。有僧云在。師云。在什麼處。其僧彈指一聲。僧到禮拜。師云。還將那箇來否。僧云。將得來。師云。在什麼處。僧彈指三聲。問如何免得生死。師云。用免作什麼。僧云。如何免得。師云。遮底不生死。

Chan Master Shigong Huizang of Fuzhou: he originally took hunting as his occupation and hated seeing śramaṇas. Because of chasing a herd of deer, he passed in front of Mazu's hermitage. Mazu went out to meet him. Zang asked, "Did the upādhyāya see the deer pass by?" Mazu said, "What sort of person are you?" [Zang] said, "A hunter." Mazu said, "Do you know how to shoot?" [Zang] said, "I shoot, I shoot." Mazu said, "How many do you shoot with one arrow?" [Zang] said, "With one arrow I shoot one." Mazu said, "You do not know how to shoot." [Zang] said, "Does the upādhyāya know how to shoot?" Mazu said, "I know how to shoot." [Zang] said, "How many does the upādhyāya shoot with one arrow?" Mazu said, "With one arrow I shoot a whole herd." [Zang] said, "Both this and that are lives; why shoot a whole herd of them?" Mazu said, "Since you know it is like this, why not shoot yourself?" [Zang] said, "If you make this person shoot himself, there is nowhere to lay a hand." Mazu said, "This fellow's ignorance and afflictions of countless eons are suddenly stilled today!" Zang at that time destroyed and cast aside his bow and arrows, cut off his hair with his own knife, and took refuge with Mazu to leave household life. One day while doing chores in the kitchen, Mazu asked, "What are you doing?" [Zang] said, "Herding an ox." Mazu said, "How do you herd it?" [Zang] said, "Whenever it enters the grass, I immediately grab its nostrils and drag it back." Mazu said, "You are truly herding an ox!" The master then stopped. After the master resided [as an abbot], he often received capacities with bow and arrow (as related in the chapter on Upādhyāya Sanping). The master asked Xitang, "Do you still know how to grasp empty space?" Xitang said, "I can grasp it." The master said, "How do you grasp it?" [Xi]tang grabbed empty space with his hand. The master said, "How can you grasp empty space like that?" [Xi]tang asked back, "How does Senior Brother grasp it?" The master grabbed Xitang's nostrils and yanked. Xitang cried out in pain and said, "You yanked someone's nostrils terribly, almost pulling them right off!" The master said, "Only by grasping empty space like this can you get it." While the assembly of monks was inquiring, the master said, "Where did the one from just now go?" A monk said, "He is here." The master said, "In what place?" That monk snapped his fingers once. A monk arrived and bowed. The master said, "Did you bring that one along or not?" The monk said, "I brought it along." The master said, "In what place is it?" The monk snapped his fingers three times. [A monk] asked, "How to avoid birth and death?" The master said, "What is the use of avoiding it?" The monk said, "How can it be avoided?" The master said, "This one does not undergo birth and death."