景德傳燈錄 7.13

7.13

Chan Master Baoche of Mount Magu in Puzhou. One day, while walking along with Mazu, he asked, "What is great nirvāṇa?" The Patriarch said, "Urgent." The Master said, "What is urgent?" The Patriarch said, "Look at the water." While the Master and Danxia were roaming the mountains, seeing a fish in the water, the Master pointed at it with his finger. Danxia said, "Natural, natural!" The next day, the Master again asked Danxia, "What was the meaning yesterday?" Danxia threw down his body and made a lying-down posture. The Master said, "Heavens!" Again, walking with Danxia to Mount Magu, the Master said, "I am going to live here." Danxia said, "Living here is well and good, but is there that one or not?" The Master said, "Take care." A monk asked, "I have no doubts about the twelvefold division of teachings; what is the meaning of the ancestral teacher coming from the west?" The Master then stood up, circled his body once with his staff, raised one foot, and said, "Do you understand?" The monk had no reply. The Master struck him. A monk asked, "What is the great meaning of the Buddha Dharma?" The Master remained silent. (That monk later asked Shishuang, "What was this meaning?" Shishuang said, "The host was so earnest that he burdened the ācārya to drag through mud and wade through water.") Danyuan asked, "Is the Eleven-Faced Avalokiteśvara an ordinary being or a sage?" The Master said, "A sage." Danyuan then slapped the Master once. The Master said, "I knew you had not reached this realm."