景德傳燈錄 9.4

9.4

洪州黃檗希運禪師閩人也。幼於本州黃檗山出家。額間隆起如肉珠。音辭朗潤志意沖澹。後遊天台逢一僧。與之言笑如舊相識。熟視之目光射人。乃偕行屬㵎水暴漲。乃捐笠植杖而止。其僧率師同渡。師曰。兄要渡自渡。彼即褰衣躡波若履平地。迴顧云。渡來渡來。師曰。咄遮自了漢。吾早知當斫汝脛。其僧歎曰。真大乘法器我所不及。言訖不見。師後遊京師。因人啟發乃往參百丈。問曰。從上宗承如何指示。百丈良久。師云。不可教後人斷絕去也。百丈云。將謂汝是箇人。乃起入方丈。師隨後入云。某甲特來。百丈云若爾則他後不得孤負吾。百丈一日問師。什麼處去來。曰大雄山下采菌子來。百丈曰。還見大蟲麼。師便作虎聲百丈拈斧作斫勢。師即打百丈一摑。百丈吟吟大笑便歸。上堂謂眾曰。大雄山下有一大蟲汝等諸人也須好看。百丈老漢今日親遭一口。師在南泉時普請擇菜。南泉問什麼處去。曰擇菜去。南泉曰。將什麼擇。師舉起刀子。南泉曰。大家擇菜去。一日南泉謂師曰。老僧偶述牧牛歌。請長老和。師云。某甲自有師在。師辭南泉。門送提起師笠子云。長老身材勿量大。笠子太小生。師云。雖然如此大千世界總在裏許。南泉云。王老師聻。師便戴笠子而去。後居洪州大安寺海眾奔湊。裴相國休鎮宛陵。建大禪苑請師說法。以師酷愛舊山。還以黃檗名之。又請師至郡以所解一編示師。師接置於坐略不拔閱。良久云。會麼。公云。未測。師云。若便恁麼會得猶較些子。若也形於紙墨何有吾宗。裴乃贈詩一章曰。

Chan Master Xiyun of Huangbo in Hongzhou was a native of Min. In his youth he went forth from household life at Mount Huangbo in his home prefecture. On his forehead a flesh-pearl bulged up; the sound of his words was clear and resonant, and his disposition was calm and untroubled. Later, while traveling in Tiantai, he met a monk. Talking and laughing with him, they were like old acquaintances. Looking closely at him, his gaze shot forth light. As they walked together, they came upon a mountain stream that was flooding violently. They put down their bamboo hats, planted their staffs, and stopped. The monk urged the Master to cross with him. The Master said, "If you want to cross, elder brother, cross by yourself." The monk then hitched up his robe, stepped onto the waves as if walking on flat ground, looked back, and said, "Come across, come across!" The Master said, "Bah, this self-liberating fellow! Had I known earlier, I would have chopped your shins!" The monk sighed and said, "A true vessel of the Mahāyāna Dharma; I cannot match you." Having spoken, he disappeared. Later, the Master traveled to the capital. Being inspired by someone, he went to visit Baizhang. He asked, "How is the heritage transmitted from above pointed out?" Baizhang remained silent for a long while. The Master said, "You must not cause later generations to be cut off!" Baizhang said, "I took you for someone [of caliber]." He then arose and entered the abbot's quarters. The Master followed him in and said, "I have come specially." Baizhang said, "If so, you must not let me down in the future." One day Baizhang asked the Master, "Where have you been?" He said, "I have been picking mushrooms at the foot of Mount Daxiong." Baizhang said, "Did you see the big tiger?" The Master immediately made the sound of a tiger. Baizhang took up an axe and made a chopping gesture. The Master promptly struck Baizhang a slap. Baizhang chuckled and laughed heartily, then returned [to his quarters]. Entering the hall, he addressed the assembly, saying, "At the foot of Mount Daxiong there is a big tiger; all of you had better look out! Today this old man Baizhang was personally bitten!" When the Master was at Nanquan's place, there was a general labor call to pick greens. Nanquan asked, "Where are you going?" He said, "To pick greens." Nanquan said, "What will you pick them with?" The Master held up a knife. Nanquan said, "Let us all go pick greens." One day Nanquan said to the Master, "This old monk happened to compose a cowherding song; I ask the elder to match it." The Master said, "I have my own master." When the Master took leave of Nanquan, Nanquan saw him to the gate, picked up the Master's bamboo hat, and said, "Elder, your stature is extraordinarily large, but the hat is far too small." The Master said, "Even so, the great chiliocosm is entirely inside it." Nanquan said, "What about Old Teacher Wang?" The Master put on his hat and walked away. Later, he resided at Da'an Monastery in Hongzhou, where an ocean-like assembly rushed to gather. Chancellor Pei Xiu, who was governing Wanling, built a great Chan cloister and invited the Master to preach the Dharma. Because the Master deeply loved his former mountain, he also named it Huangbo. He also invited the Master to the prefecture and showed him a treatise containing his own understanding. The Master received it, placed it on his seat, and did not peruse it at all. After a long silence, he said, "Do you understand?" The Chancellor said, "I have not fathomed it." The Master said, "If you could understand it just like this, there would still be some [hope]; but if it is given form in paper and ink, where is our school?" Pei then presented a verse, saying: