景德傳燈錄 6.9

6.9

池州杉山智堅禪師。初與歸宗南泉行脚時。路逢一虎。各從虎邊過了。南泉問歸宗云。適來見虎似箇什麼。宗云。似箇猫兒。宗却問師。師云似箇狗子。宗又問南泉。泉云。我見是箇大蟲。師喫飯次。南泉收生飯云生。師云無生。南泉云。無生猶是末。南泉行數步。師召云。長老長老。南泉迴頭云怎麼。師云。莫道是末。一日普請擇蕨菜。南泉拈起一莖云。遮箇大好供養。師云。非但遮箇百味珍羞他亦不顧。南泉云。雖然如此箇箇須嘗他始得（玄覺云。是相見語。不是相見語）僧問。如何是本來身。師云。舉世無相似。

Chan Master Shanshan Zhijian of Chizhou: when he was initially on pilgrimage with Guizong and Nanquan, they encountered a tiger on the road. Each of them passed by the side of the tiger. Nanquan asked Guizong, "What did the tiger you just saw resemble?" Guizong said, "It resembled a cat." Guizong then asked the master. The master said, "It resembled a dog." Guizong asked Nanquan again. Nanquan said, "I saw that it was a big bug (a tiger)." While the master was eating, Nanquan gathered up the uncooked rice and said, "Uncooked (unborn)." The master said, "There is no unborn." Nanquan said, "No-birth is still the secondary branch." Nanquan walked several paces, and the master called out, "Elder, elder!" Nanquan turned his head and said, "What is it?" The master said, "Do not say it is the secondary branch." One day during communal work gathering bracken, Nanquan picked up a stalk and said, "This makes an excellent offering." The master said, "Not only this, but even the hundred delicacies of fine feasts he would not look at." Nanquan said, "Although it is like this, each and every one must taste it before he gets it." (Xuanjue said, "Are these words of mutual recognition, or not words of mutual recognition?") A monk asked, "What is the original body?" The master said, "The entire world has nothing similar to it."