景德傳燈錄 8.35

8.35

潭州華林善覺禪師。常持錫夜出林麓間。七步一振錫一稱觀音名號。夾山善會造庵問曰。遠聞和尚念觀音是否。師曰然。夾山曰。騎却頭如何。師曰。出頭從汝騎。不出頭騎什麼。僧參方展坐具。師曰緩緩。僧曰。和尚見什麼。師曰。可惜許磕破鐘樓。其僧從此悟入。一日觀察使裴休訪之問曰。師還有侍者否。師曰。有一兩箇。裴曰。在什麼處。師乃喚大空小空。時二虎自庵後而出。裴覩之驚悸。師語二虎曰。有客且去。二虎哮吼而去。裴問曰。師作何行業感得如斯。師乃良久曰。會麼。曰不會。師曰。山僧常念觀音。

Chan Master Shanjue of Hualin in Tanzhou often carried his monk's staff and went out at night among the foot of the forest. Every seven steps he shook his staff and chanted the name of Guanyin once. Shanhui of Jiashan came to his hermitage and asked, "I have heard from afar that you chant Guanyin, Master; is it so?" The master said, "It is." Jiashan said, "What about riding on top of her head?" The master said, "If she pokes her head out, you may ride her; if she does not poke her head out, what would you ride?" A monk came to consult him and had just spread his sitting mat. The master said, "Slowly, slowly!" The monk said, "What does the Master see?" The master said, "What a pity to knock down and break the bell tower!" The monk was awakened from this. One day, the Surveillance Commissioner Pei Xiu visited him and asked, "Do you still have attendants, Master?" The master said, "I have one or two." Pei said, "Where are they?" The master then called out, "Big Emptiness! Little Emptiness!" At that moment two tigers came out from behind the hermitage. Pei saw them and was terrified. The master said to the two tigers, "There is a guest; go away for now." The two tigers roared and left. Pei asked, "What practice and deeds did you perform, Master, to bring about such a response?" The master remained silent for a long while and said, "Do you understand?" Pei said, "I do not understand." The master said, "This mountain monk constantly chants Guanyin."