景德傳燈錄 25.16

25.16

Chan Master Liangkuang of Mount Huang in Fuzhou was a native of Jizhou. He took the high seat and addressed the assembly: "On the high mountain peak, there are only plain vegetables and rice, with nothing else to offer. All practitioners! Only the vajra eye can assist you in clarifying the true mind. If you can understand it, you can shatter the darkness of ignorance; if you do not understand it, it is genuinely indestructible." He then rose and returned to the abbot's quarters. A monk asked, "What is the house style of Mount Huang?" The master said, "Striking right against your nostrils." [The monk] asked, "What is the meaning of things not shifting?" The master said, "Spring, summer, autumn, winter." [The monk] asked, "What is the one path to the gate of nirvāṇa?" The master said, "You are asking a phrase from the school's tradition, are you not?" [The monk] said, "Then there is no babbling." The master said, "It is best not to babble." [The monk] asked, "What happens when the myriad stars cluster around the moon?" The master said, "What do you call the moon?" [The monk] said, "Could it be this one?" The master said, "What is this?" [The monk] asked, "When the bright mirror is on its stand, why do the myriad forms not appear?" The master said, "Where is it on the stand?" [The monk] said, "What can be done about right now?" The master said, "You say again that they do not appear." [The monk] asked, "What is Chan?" The master said, "The three realms are continuous." [The monk] said, "What is the Way?" The master said, "The four modes of birth are boundless."