景德傳燈錄 11.53

11.53

Upādhyāya Daowu of Guannan in Xiangzhou. Initially, when passing through a rural village, he heard a shaman entertaining a spirit say, "There is no spirit of consciousness!" The Master suddenly awoke to enlightenment. Later he studied under Chan Master Chang, who sealed what he had understood. He further traveled to the gate of Deshan, where his flavor of the Dharma became even more pronounced.
Whenever he took the high seat to instruct his disciples, he would wear a lotus hat, put on a monk's robe, hold a tablet, beat a drum, blow a flute, and call himself "Lu the Third Son." Sometimes he would say, "Strike the drum of Guannan; sing the song of Deshan!"
A monk asked, "What is the meaning of the Ancestral Master's coming from the West?"
The Master made a bow with the tablet and said, "Yes!"
Sometimes the Master would hold a wooden sword across his shoulder and dance. A monk asked, "Where did the sword in your hand come from?"
The Master threw it to the ground. The monk picked it up and put it back into the Master's hands.
The Master said, "Where did it come from?"
The monk had no reply.
The Master said, "I allow you three days to present a phrase." That monk still had no reply.
The Master took up the sword himself, danced with it on his shoulder, and said, "Only like this will do."
[A monk] asked, "What is the Upādhyāya's house style?"
The Master stepped down from the meditation seat, bowed like a woman, and said, "Thank you for coming from afar; I have treated you with no hospitality at all."
The Master asked Guanxi, "How is it?"
Guanxi said, "No station."
The Master said, "Is it not identical to empty space?"
[Guanxi] said, "This butcher!"
The Master said, "If there were living beings to kill, I would not grow weary."
Upādhyāya Luohan of Zhangzhou initially awakened to the purport under the fist of Chan Master Chang of Guannan (the words are seen in the chapter on Chan Master Chang). He then composed a song, saying: