景德傳燈錄 20.6

20.6

Chan Master Tong'an Pi of Mount Fengqi in Hongzhou. A monk asked, "What is the seamless stūpa?" The master said, "Hūṃ, hūṃ!" The monk said, "Who is the person inside the stūpa?" The master said, "Today a great many people have come from Jianchang." [A monk] asked, "How is it when one puts an end to it upon the very first sight?" The master said, "Indeed; why come here again?" [A monk] asked, "What is a fish with a dot on its forehead?" The master said, "It has not penetrated the billows." The monk said, "How is it when it feels ashamed?" The master said, "In the end it does not look upward." The monk said, "If so, then it does not transform its body." The master said, "Indeed; what about the matter of the blue clouds?" [A monk] asked, "What is the master's house style?" The master said, "The golden rooster cradles its chick and returns to the heavens; the jade rabbit bears its young and turns toward the Purple Subtlety." [The monk] said, "If a guest suddenly arrives, with what will you entertain him?" The master said, "In the morning, apes go to pluck the golden fruit; after dusk, phoenixes bring back the jade blossoms in their beaks." [A monk] asked, "'When meeting a person who has attained the Way on the road, greet him neither with speech nor with silence.' May I ask, with what should one greet him?" The master said, "He needs kicking and punching." [A monk] asked, "How is it not to harm the King's Way?" The master said, "Eating gruel and eating rice." [The monk] said, "Could that be not harming the King's Way?" The master said, "Demoted and exiled to the left." [A monk] asked, "When the jade seal is opened, who receives the seal?" The master said, "Not that kind of person." [The monk] said, "What about the matter of the intimate palace?" The master said, "What are you saying?" [A monk] asked, "Who is the teacher of Vairocana?" The master said, "Ācārya, where did you leave household life?" [A monk] asked, "What is the bodhi that strikes the eye?" The master said, "The Buddha hall in front of you." [A monk] asked, "A piece of jade is flawless; I ask the master not to touch it." The master said, "I fall behind you." [A monk] asked, "When the jade seal is opened, who receives the seal?" The master said, "It is not a small matter." [A monk] asked, "What is the wondrous principle?" The master said, "Fine." [A monk] asked, "How does one stop losing one's head and mistaking reflections?" The master said, "Whom are you telling?" [The monk] said, "What is correct?" The master said, "Seeking it from others, you stray ever farther." [The monk] said, "How is it when one does not seek it from others?" The master said, "Where is your head?" [A monk] asked, "What is Tong'an's single arrow?" The master said, "Look behind the back of the head." [The monk] said, "What about the matter behind the back of the head?" The master said, "It has passed." [A monk] asked, "The deceased monk's robes are auctioned by the assembly; who auctions the ancestral master's robes?" The master said, "A beating!" [A monk] asked, "When brought forward, it does not resemble [anything]; how is it when it is not brought forward?" The master said, "Where would you place it?" [A monk] asked, "Before there was this, how did one conduct oneself?" The master said, "How do you conduct yourself ordinarily?" [The monk] said, "If so, then one does not alter the person of old times." The master said, "What kind of conduct is that?"