[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [續傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077) › 15.9 # 續傳燈錄 15.9 續傳燈錄 15.9 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [15.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.15.9) 袁州仰山行偉禪師河朔人也。東京大佛寺受具。聽習圓覺微有所疑。挈囊游方專扣祖意。至南禪師法席六遷星序。一日扣請尋被喝出。足擬跨門頓省玄旨。出世仰山道風大著。上堂。大眾會麼。古今事掩不得。日用事藏不得。既藏掩不得則日用現前。且問諸人。現前作麼生參。上堂。大眾見麼。開眼則普觀十方。合眼則包含萬有。不開不合是何模樣。還見模樣麼。久參高德舉處便曉。後進初機識取模樣。莫秖管貪睡。睡時眼見箇甚麼。若道不見與死人何別。直饒丹青處士筆頭上畫出。青山綠水夾竹桃花。秖是相似模樣。設使石匠錐頭鑽出群羊走獸。也秖是相似模樣。若是真模樣。任是處士石匠無爾下手處。諸人要見須是著眼始得。良久曰。廣則一線道。狹則一寸半。以拂子擊禪床。鼓聲纔動大眾雲臻。諸人上觀山僧下覷。上觀觀箇甚麼。下覷覷箇甚麼。良久曰。對面不相識。上堂。道不在聲色而不離聲色。凡一語一默一動一靜隱顯縱橫無非佛事。日用現前古今凝然理何差互。師自題其像曰。吾真難貌斑斑駁駁擬欲安排下筆便錯示寂。闍維獲五色舍利骨石栓索句連。塔于寺之東。 > Chan Master Xingwei of Mount Yang in Yuanzhou was a native of Heshuo. He received full ordination at Dafo Temple in the Eastern Capital. While studying the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, he had slight doubts, so he shouldered his bag and traveled about, specifically inquiring into the Patriarch's meaning. He arrived at Chan Master Nan's Dharma seat, where six years passed. One day he went to ask for instruction, but was immediately shouted out. As his foot was about to step over the threshold, he suddenly awakened to the profound meaning. He appeared in the world at Mount Yang, and his style of the Way became greatly renowned. Ascending the hall, he said: 'Does the great assembly understand? Matters of past and present cannot be hidden; matters of daily activity cannot be concealed. Since they cannot be hidden or concealed, daily activity is present before you. Now I ask all of you: how do you practice what is present before you?' Ascending the hall, he said: 'Does the great assembly see? When you open your eyes, you universally behold the ten directions; when you close your eyes, you encompass the myriad phenomena. Neither open nor closed, what kind of appearance is it? Do you still see the appearance? Those of long practice and high virtue understand as soon as it is brought up; later learners of initial capacity, recognize the appearance! Do not just greedily sleep away. When asleep, what do your eyes see? If you say they see nothing, how is that different from a dead person? Even if an uncourtly painter were to depict with his brush tip green mountains, green waters, bamboo-lined peach blossoms, it would still only be a similar appearance. Even if a stonemason were to bore out with his chisel flocks of sheep and running beasts, that too would only be a similar appearance. If it is the true appearance, let the painter or stonemason be as they may, there is no place for them to apply their hand. If you all wish to see it, you must truly fix your eyes upon it before you can!' After a long pause he said: 'If wide, it is a single thread; if narrow, it is an inch and a half.' Striking the meditation seat with his whisk: 'As soon as the drum sounds, the great assembly gathers like clouds. You look up, and this mountain monk gazes down. Looking up, what do you look at? Gazing down, what do I gaze at?' After a long pause he said: 'Face to face, yet not knowing one another.' Ascending the hall, he said: 'The Way is not in sound and form, yet is not separate from sound and form. Every single word, every silence, every movement, and every stillness, hidden or revealed, vertical or horizontal, is nothing other than Buddhist activity. Daily activity is present before you; past and present are motionless and solid. How could there be any discrepancy in principle?' The Master inscribed his own portrait, saying: / 'My true form is hard to depict, mottled and blotched; / Intending to arrange it, as soon as the brush touches, one is mistaken.' / Entering quiescence, his cremation (jhāpita) yielded five-colored śarīra, with his bone-relics linked together like chained links. A pagoda was erected for him to the east of the temple. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 15.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.15.8) - [Next: 15.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.15.10) - [Up: 15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.15) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077~en-mt.15.9) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.15.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.15.9) · Pramāṇa