景德傳燈錄 20.7

20.7

Chan Master Danquan of Guizong Monastery on Mount Lu (the second generation). A monk asked, "How is it before the golden rooster crows?" The master said, "One loses the jade of Sound of Majesty." [The monk] said, "How is it after it crows?" The master said, "The three realms sink flatly." [A monk] asked, "How is it when one offers up one's entire body?" The master said, "What have you brought?" [The monk] said, "I spare nothing that I have." The master said, "Whom are you offering it to?" The monk was speechless. [A monk] asked, "The student has come for the Buddha Dharma; what is the Buddha Dharma?" The master said, "Right now, leisure and emptiness." [The monk] said, "Then please discuss it." The master said, "Encompassing all with plenty to spare." [A monk] asked, "When the great assembly gathers like clouds, what matter do they discuss together?" The master said, "In threes and in twos." [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, "How can one approve of another?" He also said, "Do you understand?" [The monk] said, "I do not understand." The master said, "A latrine pit on the road to Chang'an." [A monk] asked, "The student does not ask about other things; what is the great meaning of the Buddha Dharma?" The master said, "Three pillories and five staves." [A monk] asked, "How does one who thoroughly understands speak?" The master said, "What about the matter of right now?" The monk said, "Follow the current." The master said, "If you do not follow the current, how can you rest?"