景德傳燈錄 26.120

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Chan Master Yongqing of Haihui Temple on Mount Yungai in Tanzhou was a native of Hezhou. His surname was Zhao. Leaving home in his home prefecture, he sought the Dharma with fierce resolve. Travelling from afar to participate at Chang'an, he secretly harmonized with the ancestral principle. He first resided at Mount Dongping in Shaozhou. In the second year of the Chunhua era, the prefect of Tanzhou, Zhang Maozong, invited him to reside at Yungai (as abbot of the sixth generation). A monk asked: "There is a person at the bottom of a ten-thousand-fathom well; how can he get out?" The master said: "I am just glad to meet you." The monk said: "Then he pierces the clouds and penetrates the moon." The master said: "What about the affairs of the Trayastriṃśa Heaven?" The monk had no words. He asked: "What is the environment of Yungai?" The master said: "Outside the gate are three spring-wells." He asked: "What about the person within the environment?" The master said: "A postulant making offerings." The master had a verse to show the assembly, saying: